고등학교 ‘법과 정치’ 교과서의 분석과 개선 모색-민사법 분야-

Abstract

This article analyses and suggests possible improvements on the current high school textbook, ‘Law and Politics’. In this article we will try to define the role of high school law education as an actual guide for students to willingly form a legal relationship in their life and take its responsibility, therefore to become independent an democratic citizens as well as dedicated members of the society. For this, students are supposed to learn the basic principles of civil law, the contract, the torts, the family relations and the real estate transactions. For this, the following issuses should be considered for improvement. First, current textbook of high school contains all the elements from University courses and makes itself too hard to understand for average high school students. Second, students should learn, before everything, that legal relations are based on freedom, but also come with corresponding responsibility. Third, it is also important to make students understand that legal relations are formed autonomously and heteronomously at the same time, not only by the contract but also by the law. Regarding the components of textbook, the following guidelines are suggested; 1. Contracts and torts should be explained in the same unit. 2. Real estate transactions must be defined as a part the property relations. 3. Legal disputes and related settlements should be considered as a separate unit, and not a subordinate part of torts.