초록/요약

This study analyzed the sex education-related units from the six practical arts education textbooks, published for the 2015 revised elementary school curriculum, based on the national sex education standards (Ministry of Education, 2015b) in order to find out the characteristics of sex education in elementary school practical arts subjects. The results of this study are summarized as follows. First, the sex education-related units are arranged in the first unit of the 5th and 6th grades, and the difference between the grades is not large in terms of the proportion of the number of pages devoted to the unit, but the difference between the textbooks is large. Second, in the unit related to sex education, four of the five areas suggested by the sex education standards (human development, human relations, sexual health, society and culture) were explicitly or implicitly dealt with, and one area (coping skills) was not covered. Therefore, this study suggests that a series of topics such as ‘dating’ and ‘public media and sex’, which are required according to the realistic needs and social changes of the current elementary school sex education, should be reflected in the revision of the practical arts curriculum and the writing of textbooks in the future. It is suggested that related learning activities that are indirectly dealt with in relation to family need to be dealt with more practically by strengthening the connection between the school and the family within the family relationship that has already formed an intimate relationship.