사회과를 통한 인성교육의 현실과 과제

Abstract

This study was conducted as an effort to make strategies for character building through social studies education, and its purposes were to identify elements related to character education through social studies and analyze the current state of character education through social studies, its problems, and solutions through an expert Delphi survey, and to discuss the outcomes of the analysis. According to the results of the Delphi survey, the experts mentioned that content elements such as discrimination, conflict, infringement of human rights, social issues, and base of life in the middle school social studies curriculum might be associated with character elements such as participation, cooperation, and peace. In addition, they pointed out obstacles to social studies character education such as knowledge‐centered education, lack of social studies class hours, poor materials for social studies character education, and inadequate systems to support social studies character education. Based on these results, this study suggested that character elements should be spotlighted and utilized in the social studies curriculum, that various teaching-learning methods should be applied in social studies classes, that the curriculum and teaching should be restructured in consideration of social studies teachers’ character education, that the activation of social studies character education should be supported and encouraged by educational authorities, and that social studies teachers’ character-friendly words and attitude are important.