중등 사회과 교과서 정치영역의 탐구과제 분석 - 행위능력 요구활동을 중심으로 -

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the characteristic feature of inquiry task on the political area in social studies textbooks. What are the contents and activities to require the students' participation? How do students learn participation ability? These are the problems into which I delved in this work. To achieve goals in this study, the quantitative analysis have been gone hand in hand with the qualitative analysis. First of all, the scope of the materials is classified into academic field and practical field. And the materials which have been classified into a practical field are classified once again into my own, family, school and peer groups, local society, nation, and global levels. Secondly, Types of inquiry activity have been classified into the activity that needs lower-level cognitive ability, the activity that needs higher-level thinking and the activity that needs action ability: the former is classified into knowledge and comprehension, and the latter is classified into several distinct steps like application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and action once again. Finally, inquiry activities that needs action ability have been performed qualitative analysis. The results of this study and implications are as follows. First, even though practical field is given a great deal of weight to the scope of inquiry materials, it consists of the materials beyond the level most countries reach at. consequently, it is necessary to give much weight to the materials including such a level like my own, family, school and peer groups, and local society for the needs of significant connection with learners. Secondly, the result showed that political education centered on cognitive ability. Therefore, the amount of inquiry task followed by action ability should be increased, especially this paper stresses that the amount of activity making possible for learners to experience real life should be increased. Thirdly, it was easy for learners to expect some difficulties when performing their task because the task requiring action ability consists of without any specific guidance processes, besides the following consideration to extend the period of learners' participation has not be clarified yet. Therefore, the inquiry task requiring action ability should be made up qualitatively to enhance the learners' participation ability for a long time.