법교육과정의 구성 방식 및 초등 사회과법교육의 내용 분석: 주제 중심 나선형 법교육과정을 중심으로

Abstract

This paper presents the components and organizational principle of the law-related education curriculum(LREC) and then analyzes the contents of the elementary law-related education(LRE) based on them. Most of the existing studies suggested the content elements of law education according to the structure of law, and did not suggest ways to continuously organize the scope and depth of law education contents considering students' intellectual level and experience. As a way to overcome these limitations, I will propose a Theme-Centered Spiral Curriculum of Law-Related Education(TCSCLRE). The TCSCLRE is to organize the subjects that are important in fostering law-related citizenship in everyday legal life and gradually expand the scope and depth of contents of LRE appropriate to each student's intellectual level and experience. In summary of analysis, the curriculum of the LRE was not composed of spiral form based on the components of TCSCLRE. The contents related to the meaning and significance of law were improperly presented in Grade 6 for the first time, and the contents related to the constitution and fundamental rights were presented too much in Grade 6. The Social studies textbook〔6-2〕duplicated the types and contents of basic human rights in unit of‘the rights and duties of the people’ and ‘the happy life and human rights’. In order to organize the content of the LREC systematically, it is necessary for the LRE experts to propose a standard of the LREC organized in a spiral form suitable to each student's intellectual level and experience.