Situation analysis

This chapter was about situation analysis and covered various factors : societal factors, project factors, institutional factors, teacher factors, learner factors, and adoption factors
I think all these factors have tremendous effect on implementing a curriculum successfully. Therfore, lack of appropriate sistuation analysis at initial stage resuts in the fail of curriculum. I think the introduction of elective program in 7th national curriculum is a good example to show its importnace. The ultimate goal of elective curriclum was to give the opportunities high school 2nd and 3rd graders to choose a number of electives. The intention was great enough to attract people's attention, but it caused so many issues to be examined. First of all, there was a problem in institutional factors, because school couldn't afford to open diverse electives that reflect the different abilities, aptitude, need, and interest of students. Secondly, another problem was in the societal factors. Students and their parents considered main subject such as Korean, math and English the most important, because those subjects are necessary and required subjets in Korean SAT. Therefore, most of them didn't apply for the eletives based on their interests and career development needs.
This gives us important implication. Although elective curriclum was introduced, following western country's successful practice, it couldn't be successful in Korean situation, because situation analysis was not tanken into account carefully.