민주시민교육 = Democratic Civic Education

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Democratic civic education may be said to be a form of the necessary political education in that it provides for stability, efficiency and integration of political system as well as proper solutions to the expected problems after unification. But it has not received the sufficient attention by the scholars and experts and exposed such problems as disagreement on the contents of democratic civic education, the use of it as the instrument of government, lack of attention and cognition about it, the inadequacies of institutions. This article is meant to suggest the democratic civic education in the new direction by analyzing these problems systematically. New principles of democratic civic education i. e. universality, speciality, spontaneity and learning of self-study are suggested. The changes in individual identity and citizenship that may appear in the horizontal relations in the information society should be added to the preexisting contents of democratic civic education, which would bring about their adjustment or change in some parts. The Law for Democratic Civic Education and Center for Democratic Civic Education may be considered as the absolutely necessary institutions for the successful implementation of democratic civic education.