Recent special education of Korea faces a rapid change. Recently Korean special
education faces a rapid change. 「Special Education Improvement Act」 was abolished
and 「Special Education Laws for Persons with Disabilities and Others」 were enacted
and executed from May of 2008 and as special educational teacher' s ceπificate was
issued by course like kindergarten, elementary and secondary special educational
teachers license, division by the areas of disabilities was also abolished. Thus, the
7th special school curriculum was changed into revised curriculum in 2008 and
applied from 2009, and after that, according to the real-time revision system of
curnculum, special education curriculum for 2010 was newly notified on Dec. 20, 2010
and detailed criteria for acquiring special educational teachers' certificate which is the
foundation of curriculum for training special educational teachers were revised in 2009
and it was applied from new teacher recruitment examination for 2009.
Therefore, this study aims to examine radical changes of Korean special education
from three perspectives inc1uding perspective of special education goals (from
speciality to generality), that of special education related laws (from special law to
general law) and that of special education methods (from separate education to
inc1usive education) and consider the current problems in the field of special
education like importance and lirnitation of curriculum education in special education.