사회과에서의 실천중심 정치참여 교육은 가능할까?-지역사회 공공정책참여를 중심으로-

Abstract

This study emphasizes the necessity of learning social participatory practice as a part of democratic civic education, and suggests a method to apply social participatory practice class in school based on curriculum. As a way of doing this, an emphasis is put on the participation of students in decision making to solve their own problems through school and community connections. In order to realize democratic civic education, which is emphasized recently in the field of education, the actual change movement will result when not merely utilizing the school space, but a connection is made with the community. Therefore, as a citizen, students should be able to realize the social actions to exert an influence on the public policy that affects them and to pursue community development based on their community. To this end, the social studies education need to prepare a concrete plan to develop a form of practical learning that goes beyond the teaching methods mainly carried out through textbooks in class to the local community. This study presents a model of social participation learning through school and community connections for social studies education. In particular, a method is attempted to prepare so that students will be able to participate in the policy experiment process and influence the decision making by newly introducing the living-lab method. This method makes it possible to realize an integrated participatory class that can empathize at the level of functional and value, a step further from the existing social participatory class method that can be understood and sympathized at the cognitive level. This will allow students to acquire the political and social efficacy as well as a sense of belonging to and pride of the local community, and to build social capital by building a trust to society.