The purpose of this study was to identify the direction for domestic special education curriculum by reviewing domestic and foreign articles dealing with the curriculum of students with disabilities. For the purpose of this study, the researcher analyzed 88 domestic and foreign articles published since 2010.
The results of literature review on domestic and foreign curriculum were as follow. First, the themes related to the curriculum of students with disabilities mainly dealt with analysis of current curriculum, practice of current curriculum, exploration of new curriculum, and development and practice of new curriculum. This study showed that domestic articles mainly dealt with the analysis of current curriculum and the exploration of new curriculum, and did not have much attention the contents related to the of curriculum. Second, as the variable characteristics of curriculum of students with disabilities, domestic articles showed that they had many studies on intellectual disabilities, hearing impairment and severe·multiple disabilities regarding the types of disabilities, usually explored basic curriculum in terms of curriculum, mostly used literature study and research study regarding research method, and usually focused on teachers as research subjects.
This study insists that it is necessary to have more studies that directly practice curriculum among domestic curriculum of students with disabilities. In addition, this study argues that it is necessary to have interests on more various curriculum, including general education curriculum, functional curriculum and visual impairment curriculum, for supporting students with disabilities having various educational placements and needs.