Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the development process and significance of the Media and Information Literacy(MIL) curriculum for high schools, approved by the Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education in 2023. The MIL curriculum is borrowed from the term “Media and Information Literacy” proposed by UNESCO in 2007. The MIL curriculum was developed based on the components, subject areas, learning content, competencies, and achievement standards of MIL proposed by UNESCO, tailored to the Korean high school curriculum. The Media Information Literacy Curriculum is a curriculum recognized by international organizations, and is significant in that it is the first library and information science curriculum at the level of the provincial office of education to be approved as an elective high school subject in Korea. This means that teacher librarians can operate the library and information science curriculum as a regular curriculum. The developed MIL curriculum reflects digital, media, and reading literacy as well as existing information literacy, which is in line with today’s social policy changes in which information literacy is expanding to complex literacy.