학교 참정권 교육의 내용 요소 설정 및 사회과에서의 참정권 교육 내용 분석 - 2015 개정 교육과정을 중심으로 -

Abstract

Considering the lowering of the age about the right to vote, eligibility, and party affiliation, it is most urgent to systematically implement suffrage education from elementary school to high school. In accordance with this consciousness, this study presented the content standards of suffrage education at different school levels by deriving the meaning and direction of school suffrage education and preparing the content area and content elements of suffrage education in formal education system. Based on this, the 2015 revised Social Studies curriculum and textbooks were analyzed to examine the current status of suffrage education and propose improvement ideas in schools. The main results of the study are as follows. First, there is a lack of contents related to students' everyday life, so it is necessary to improve and supplement the curriculum and textbooks. Second, since most of the contents of suffrage education are concentrated in the middle school social studies curriculum, it is necessary to strengthen the contents in ‘Integrated Society’ subject, which is a common subject in the first year of high school. Third, it is necessary to provide sufficient examples or explanations when presenting various concepts related to suffrage in textbooks in consideration of the developmental level of students. Fourth, there is a limitation in directly presenting various cases or issues in real life related to suffrage education due to excessive demands for political impartiality in education, so it is necessary to improve this.