초등역사교육에서 주제 중심 내용구성방안

Abstract

The Korean history curriculum has a repetitive format, which means learners study history with recurring themes that expand and gradually become more difficult through middle school and high school. If this repetitive study format continues into middle school and high school, then, any attempt to change must start at the elementary school level, where history education begins. This article is as follows: First, it presents the problems of a one-year curriculum and historical content based on the chronological method in elementary school. Second, it tries to organize the contents of history education based on the thematic-centered method as an teaching approach. According to the thematic-centered method, aspects of the learners such as interests, relevance and contextual understanding must be considered. In addition, the article suggests 12 themes which consist of 5 to 10 sub topics each with the view of organizing methods in the thematiccenteredapproach. For elementary school students, it is important to improve elemenatary students’ interest in history, because this period is the introductory stage of learning history. Therefore, It is necessary for young learners to recognize the real meaning of learning history. We need to lead learners to understand that ‘history’ is not only a subject we should study and memorize, but it is closely related with themselves.