도덕 교과서에 나타난 양성평등 인식과 그 비민주성

Abstract

This study tried to analyse and review the matter of gender equality in the Korean secondary school moral textbooks based on 2009 Revised Curriculum. Gender equality must be achieved in a true democracy, but unfortunately, compared to other countries, the social status of women in Korean society is very low in every aspect. This means that gender equality is still a major task in Korea and that gender equality education based on Korean school curriculum has not been effective. Moral subject which maintains to be the core subject in personality education is teaching the issue of gender equality today, but it is found to have some problems. Firstly, gender equality is not considered an important social task in moral textbooks. Secondly, there are some contents against gender equality. For example, conjugal relations are mainly described in the light of the confucian principles, but women in Chosun society were almost entirely alienated from the civil rights. Thirdly, the concept of gender in the moral textbooks remains very close to that of biological sex to stress a natural difference between the sexes. In conclusion, the recognition of gender equality in the Korean moral textbooks is undemocratic in the sense of disregarding human dignity and value of women.