The purpose of this study is to investigate the research trends of disability-awareness program during the past 6 years through the analysis of theses related to the disability-awareness program among the domestic theses as an object of elementary school students. To achieve this objective, this study was to investigate whether the changes in the general students recognition and acceptance attitude towards the students with disabilities by grade of elementary school were effective in the contents of research and research method.
To achieve this, this study was to select total 50 papers by researching the disability-awareness program targeted to the elementary school students during the past 2012-2018. This study was to analyze it by dividing total 50 papers into by the contents of research and research method by grade based on the analysis criteria as referenced in the preceding study. Based on these research findings, the proposals for limitations and follow-up study above are as follows. First, it needs to analyze the trends by including all the details targeted to other researches except the experimental research. Second, it needs to clarify the effects of program and degree of understanding in depth through the qualitative research, not through the quantitative analysis only like experimental research. Third, the information of new academic knowledge and beneficial disability-awareness program can be acquired with the comparative analysis on the overseas research as well as domestic research. Fourth, most of analysis object theses are analyzed by defining the variables, so it requires the multilateral research according to the diverse variables which can affect the disability acceptance attitude and recognition. Fifth, it requires the continuous observation and investigative study regarding verification of sustainability for positive acceptance attitude and improvement of recognition. Sixth, it needs to develop and distribute the disability-awareness program by grade systematically at a national level, and to apply and generalize it at the actual education field.