Ahead of the implementation of the 2015 revised national curriculum, this study aims for
investigating school teachers’ perceptions of ‘Safe Life’ newly developed as the curriculum time
allocation will be increased by 64 hours for 1~2 grade of elementary schools. To examine school
teachers’ perceptions, the mixed method of investigating was conducted with the incorporation of
surveys and interviews. The result was analyzed the following four subjects. First, in terms of
who has to teach ‘Safe Life’, a majority of participants suggested that class teachers had to teach.
Second, in terms of difficulties caused in applying ‘Safe Life’ to the curriculum, teachers
considered the burden inflicted on teachers as well as students the most important. Another
crucial problem that the content of ‘Safe Life’ overlaps with other subjects and creative hands-on
activities was claimed. Third, regarding the curriculum design, as the introduction of ‘Safe Life’
generates the additional instructional time(64hours), teachers suggested to distribute the class hour
per week for ‘Safe Life’. Another proposition was that the hours would be flexibly allocated for
‘Safe Life’ if its content or topic could be integrated with other subjects and 'Creative Experiential
Activities' as extracurriculum. Fourth, for supporting plans after the introduction of ‘Safe Life’, it
was suggested that developing and providing teaching materials and programs was the most
required. Other suggestions were to install equipment and facilities related to safety education,
develop devices for safety empirical education, support budgets for safety education and so on.
Based on these results, teachers allegedly dealing with the introduction of ‘Safe Life’ were
considered as ‘teachers under the circumstance when they have to teach it in spite of their heavy
burden’. Accordingly, this study suggested ways to support them.