중학교 사회교과서 개편에 관한 연구 : 인문학적 소양교육을 중심으로

Abstract

This study examined the strategies upon which the revision of middle school students’ social study textbooks should depend while searching for the better way to improve students’ potentials on humanities. The research showed that the current textbooks were not good enough to encourage students to learn humanities. It also found that the current textbooks have problems such as ‘the inconsistency of curriculum’, ‘an overload of learning materials’, ‘the absence of realities’, and the like. On the basis of these findings, this study suggested the followings. First and foremost, the textbook has to be restructured in many ways. What is needed most is to include more liberal art materials in the textbooks. Second, it is necessary to revamp the reading materials and teaching methods as for the strengthening of middle school students’ humanities. Third, new textbooks are to contain reading materials on politics and philosophies while showing the way of applying them to the real world. In addition, they also incorporate items attracting student attentions and contemporary issues interested by people in general into their contents. Fourth, they need to be revised to nurture cultural perspectives on generals, not to mention of our own culture while simplifying study areas and reducing the page volume. Fifth, social science teachers need to expand extra-curricular activities like class discussions and exploring activities in order to improve students’s educational achievement.