영국의 ‘2013 개정 교육과정’에서 의도한 것과 구현한 것

The purpose of this article is to determine the intention of curriculum reform recently pushed forward in England and to review how this intention was realized in the 2013 revision of the national curriculum. To achieve this purpose, this article reviews both the background and the intention that led the English government to reform the national curriculum. It additionally determines how the intention is realized in the general guidelines and the subject matter curriculum of the new national curriculum. According to the results of this study, England’s new curriculum was carried forward to solve problems, such as students’ low academic achievement, the past regime’s competence-based approach, and too much prescription from the nation about how to teach. The new national curriculum drastically reduces the national-level prescription by offering an outline of core knowledge of each subject and aiming to introduce students to the essential knowledge of the subjects. Although England’s new national curriculum is criticized for returning to the past, the effort that the country made to reduce too much national-level prescription is full of implications, which are discussed in this article.