초등학교 사회 교과서 역사지도에 나타난 타자, 제주

Abstract

This article aims at the analysis of the historical Other in the elementary social studies textbook(5-2. 6-1) and atlas. The question of the Other has become one of critical issues on the historical agenda. I focus on the perspective of dealing with Jeju as the Other found in history textbooks. This study is divided into two parts. First, as ‘the perspective of inclusion’, the textbooks state that Jeju has existed in the area of national history since the new stone age. In this case, however, Jeju was seen by the point of view of Korean peninsula. Second, as ‘the perspective of exclusion’, Jeju is only the geographical unit representing the area of national history. It excludes the historical experience created by Jeju itself. In the history textbooks the minorities such as natives, women, locality have been oppressed as the others in the scheme of national centrism's dichotomy. And thus, many historians are trying to restore their voices which have been silenced in the national dominated history. However, it is not an easy task to find the place of the others if one clings to the existing order of national-centered society. It is necessary to come up with an alternative not based in the scheme of the Same, but in the Difference of the Other. The conclusion of the article is that the history textbook written by the centric perspective should be modified and updated through a full discussion. First, the local history needs to be understood more correctly. The work of more closely relating national history and local history should be done. Second, the local history experience should be written in the local government history textbook in its own perspective.