Reexamination of Whole Person Education and Direction of Art Curriculum Composition and Description

This study began with the purpose of reexamining the meaning of humanity in situations of human crisis and chaos and exploring the direction of implementing whole person education in modern school education. I searched Research Information Sharing Services for studies related to whole person education conducted over the past 10 years (2014 to 2023) and found about 190 results. Among these, an analysis of the studies related to art education revealed that three ideologies, including holistic education, German neo-humanism, and aesthetic human, were being discussed as theoretical backgrounds. An analysis frame-work was developed by extracting elements of whole person education from these ideologies, and based on this, I analyzed how the whole person education ideology is being implemented in the 2022 revised art curriculum. As a result, n the 2022 revised art curriculum, elements of whole person education were parti-ally and fragmentarily reflected. Curriculum documents should be described in sentences containing philos-ophy based on the fundamental ideology, values, and contexts pursued in whole person education.