제7차 교육과정 중학교 사회과 교과서의 ‘세계화’에 대한 인식과 서술내용 분석

Abstract

This study is aimed to analyze the viewpoints and contents of the ‘globalization' in the middle school textbooks of social studies of the 7th national curriculum. So in this paper, 10 textbooks were selected and investigated with the criteria - the viewpoints and contents of the globalization. The results are as follows. First, the more open perspectives of the globalization are needed to be adequate to the aims of the education for international understanding. In these social studies textbooks, the viewpoint of the globalization is very limited to the irresistible social phenomenon. So the students are obliged to be skillful and be knowledgable to survive it. It can cause them to be closed and exclusive to others. Second, the quantity of the description of the globalization is not balanced. The negative aspects of it are neglected or null in some social studies textbooks. Third, the attitude of the description of it should be more concrete, rational and realistic. In other words, the conflict and reconciliation cases should be shown for the students to understand the reality. But it is described that the students should survive the struggle with others in most of the social studies textbooks. This is not the objective of the world citizenship education, nor the ideal of the education for international understanding. More realistic and rational descriptions of the globalization are needed.