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Research If You Do Not Want Them to Know, Do Not Teach Them Statistics? (Story of North Korean Mathematics) RESEARCH IF YOU DO NOT WANT THEM TO KNOW, DO NOT TEACH THEM STATISTICS? (STORY OF NORTH KOREAN MATHEMATICS) out shortly after the liberation. North Korea was Jung Hang Lee supported by the USSR and China; and the Western Mathematics Department allies led by the United States aided South Korea. As the war ended in 1953, two countries were formed t has been more than sixty years since Korea on the Korean Peninsula. North Korea, under the was divided into two separate countries – the governance of Kim Il Sung, belonged to the so-called IDemocratic People’s Republic of Korea (North socialist bloc. As North Korea gaining autonomy Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea). from the neighbouring great powers, Kim Il Sung After the Korean War (1950-1953), these two declared his country’s mission to consist in following countries have developed political, social, and its own version of Marxism-Leninism, called “Juche”. educational systems under conflicting ideologies. Juche has been variously translated into English as North Korea developed into a unique form of “self-identity”, “national individuality”, and “national socialist country, whereas South Korea became identity” or “self-reliance”. The dictatorial regime of a democratic country. Even after the events of Kim Il Sung, his son Kim Jong Il, his grandson Kim the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union, North Korea Jong Un and the Workers’ Party of Korea, which was remains one of the most closed-off nations in the under their control, led the country into an extreme world. The separation has resulted in two different poverty, particularly during the so-called “March of Koreas with radically different current status. In Suffering”, a prolonged period of economic decline 2017, the nominal Gross Domestic Product (GDP) that lasted from 1990 to 1998. It is estimated that of South Korea was $1.578 trillion, which ranked 2.5 million people, which is about 10% of total 11th in the world. In 2014, South Korea was the population, died from starvation during this period. seventh largest exporter and importer in the world. Soon after Kim Jong Il’s death in 2011, Kim Jong However, North Korea still remains as one of the Un, who is a grandson of Kim Il Sung, became the poorest countries in the world. chairman of the Worker’s Party gaining full control of the country. This research examines North Korea’s secondary mathematics education alongside social and political prospective. North Korean secondary mathematics textbooks and curricula have been examined and analyzed. Facts and conclusions have been disclosed. However, large fractions of the North Korean mathematics educational system, including its teachers, students, and dynamics of the actual classrooms, still remain unknown, as North Korea maintains its isolation. BACKGROUND INFORMATION ■ Kim, Il Sung ■ Kim, Jong Il ■ Kim, Jong Un (1912/4/15~1994/7/8) (1941/2/16~2011/12/17) (1984/1/8 ~ ) From 1910 to 1945, Korea was a Japanese colony ■ Political leadership ■ Political leadership ■ Political leadership and its education system was influenced by the between 1948~1994 between 1994 ~ 2011 from 2011 ~ present (47 years) (17 years) Japanese model. However, the Korean War broke 9 A new educational system took shape and con- Number of Hours of Middle School Curriculum tinued to operate to a certain degree even during Subjects by Grade Level (adapted in 2013) Grade the most difficult and problematic years. The high- Subject Total Hour 1st 2nd 3rd % lights in the development of this educational sys- Revolutionary Activities of our Great tem included the establishment of a compulsory Leader Kim, Il Sung 136 2 2 3.9 Revolutionary Activities of our Great nine-year mandatory education in 1966 (four years Leader Kim, Jong Il 136 2 2 3.9 of elementary and five years of secondary educa- Revolutionary Histories of Anti-Japanese Heroine Comrade, our mother Kim, Jung tion), and then a 11-year mandatory education in Suk 34 1 1 1975 (one year of kindergarten, four years of ele- Revolutionary Histories of our Great Leader Kim, Jong Un 102 1 1 1 3 mentary, and six years of secondary school), and Moral of Socialism 102 1 1 1 3 the publishing of The Theses of Socialist Education Total 510 5 6 4 14.8 Korean Language 510 5 5 5 14.8 (Kim, Il Sung, 1977), which summarized and pro- English 408 4 4 4 11.8 pelled socialist education in North Korea. As Kim History 136 1 1 2 3.9 Geography 102 1 1 1 3 Jong Un came to power, it was revised as a twelve- Total 1156 11 11 12 33.4 Mathematics 578 6 5 6 16.7 year mandatory education (one year of kindergar- Natural Sciences 510 5 5 5 14.8 ten, five years of elementary, three years of middle Total 1088 11 10 11 31.5 Information Technology 192 2weeks 2weeks 2weeks 5.6 school, and three years of high school). Basic Technology 102 1 1 1 3 Total 294 1 1 1 8.5 Physical Education 204 2weeks 2weeks 2weeks 5.9 School System and Curriculum Music and Dance 102 1 1 1 3 Art 102 1 1 1 3 Total 408 4 4 4 11.8 In secondary schools in North Korea, the principal weekly hours 32 32 32 oversees the whole school, especially administrative and financial matters. The vice principal should be Structure of a Mathematics Class and a member of the Worker’s Party and work as a Reinforcing the Policy of the Party Secretary of the Workers’ Party at his school. The vice principal manages teachers and is responsible According to Teacher A, secondary school mathe- for monitoring the educational ideology at the school. matics classes in North Korea consist of 45 minutes The vice principal also observes the curriculum and with five mandatory phases--Dea Sal Li Gi (Review- its implementation. North Korea has a national ing), Sook Jea Gum Yule (Checking Homework), Dang curriculum that does not give students or the schools Jung Chek Wha (Reinforcing the Policy of the Party), any choice. For instance, only one set of national Sae Ji Sik Ju Gi (Delivering New Knowledge), and Da Ji textbooks for all the secondary students is available Gi (Fortifying the Knowledge). There is a 10-minute and the curriculum is strictly controlled by the Workers’ break between each class and all teachers receive Party and represents the educational direction of a memorandum from the local board of education the Workers’ Party. Even the details of the date and on the appropriation of time to each class). time of chapter allocations is set and reinforced by the Ministry of Education in The Workers’ Party. Steps Time Allocation (%) Dea Sal Li Gi (Reviewing) 3 minutes (6.7%) Sook Jea Gum Yule (Checking Homework) 2 minutes (4.4%) Dang Jung Chek Wha (Reinforcing the Policy 7 minutes (15.6%) of the Party) Sae Ji Sik Ju Gi (Delivering New Knowledge) 28 minutes (62.2 %) Da Ji Gi (Fortifying the Knowledge) 28 minutes (62.2 %) Even in the mathematics classes, Juche ideology is imposed in the form of Dang Jung Chek Wha (Reinforcing the Policy of the Party). Many teachers identify themselves as one who contemplate on the Dang Jung Chek Wha (Reinforcing the Policy of 10 the Party) much more than other teachers. There gifted students. Students were tested and is no guidebook or teacher’s manual for teaching selected at the end of elementary school. Those this section, but some materials are provided who taught at the First High School were getting when teachers attend the teacher education paid about 50% to 60% of the salary during the programs that are held every summer and winter period. break. Teachers have to come up with how to connect the Policy of the Party with the materials Probability and Statistics Section that they present in class. The chapter “Probability and Statistics” is relatively Mathematics Teachers and the March of new in North Korean secondary mathematics. Suffering Most teachers were not properly trained to teach probability and statistics. Even when they learned During the March of Suffering (1990 ~ 1998), survival probability and statistics at a teachers’ university, of the nation was challenged. It was estimated that they never had to understand the subject in depth 2.5 million North Koreans died from starvation since they did not have to teach the subject. In between 1995 and 1997. Many teachers had to a socialist country such as North Korea, neither appeal to the local board of education and they probability nor statistics was regarded as important gave 10 days of food instead of the whole month. concepts. The development of probability was However, even this was only in 1991 and after that, necessary for gambling in a capitalistic society and any support was completely stopped. Teachers did statistics helped to predict social phenomena closely not get any food or money at all. It was even more related to insurance. Regardless, gambling, casinos, difficult for elderly and disabled people. They also the lotto, stock market, or insurance companies did not receive anything and most of them died. do not exist in North Korea. For instance, in the The attendance at schools gradually dropped to textbook, the concept of probability is introduced 70% and morning classes would operate normally with an example using a die, which is preceded but afternoon classes were often canceled because with a physical description of a die since North the teachers had to go elsewhere to find food. Korean students do not know what a die looks like. One reason why the North Korean educational This may be also motivated with politically driven system was able to survive during the March of purpose.
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