‘법과 사회’ 교육과정 개정에 따른 교과서 개발 방향 - 개정 ‘법과 사회’ 교육과정에 대한 교사들의 인식을 중심으로 -

Abstract

The Street Law program seeks to promote legal literacy among young people to ensure that they possess that minimum amount of practical, legal knowledge needed to understand the system as a whole and how it can work in their behalf. It delivers units in Housing, Consumer, Family, Criminal, and Constitutional Law at the respective school sites. In Korea, the 'Law and Society' official curriculum has been revised in 2007. When developing the new 'Law and Society' textbook according to the 2007's revised 'Law and Society' curriculum, it is necessary that what and how the concrete contents should be included. The previous 'Law and Society' textbook has been continuously criticized by teachers and students for it's hard and vast contents. And it makes the teachers and students hard to take the subject. So such problems should be solved in the new revised 'Law and Society' textbook. The survey in this study shows that in the revised 'Law and Society' curriculum, what law terms are most important in theory and what law terms are most difficult for students to understand. Especially in many cases, the importance and the difficulty of concepts of law terms are different. So the importance and the difficulty of concepts of law terms should be deeply and widely considered. Especially, the law concepts which have big gaps between importance in theory and students' understanding, we should make much effort to make up for the difference. In this way, we hope that 'Law and Society' promote in students a willingness and capability to participate effectively in the legal and political systems.