The goal of social studies education is to produce democratic citizens. In the education of social science, the human rights education is very important which enables students to know what human rights are and develops their attitude to respect others...
The goal of social studies education is to produce democratic citizens. In the education of social science, the human rights education is very important which enables students to know what human rights are and develops their attitude to respect others' human rights. The aim of this study is to examine what direction human rights education is actually taking in schools and present a direction for the future.
Human rights education includes both an awareness aspect and a righteous aspect. This study considered these two aspects to be relayed through formal curriculum and hidden curriculum. The education curriculum and textbooks set by the government were examined to study formal curriculum. The various relationships of students at schools - relationships between students, relationships with teachers, relationships with the school, etc. - and teachers' awareness of human rights were subjects of analysis to study hidden curriculum.
The current human rights education system situation in schools is as follows. The formal curriculum includes education related to human rights from various textbooks, but it focuses more on the awareness aspect rather than the righteous aspect, and has many weaknesses such as the structure being too spread out. In terms of hidden curriculum, schools and teachers consider students as subjects of restraint and regulations and an atmosphere of respecting the human rights of students is not created.
Therefore, this study proposed first, writing standards for human rights education textbooks and second, a teaching method where students lead instead of teachers, in order to improve human rights education as an education curriculum and the Korean rights environment. However, it pointed out that diverse and continuous human rights education should be provided to teachers to change their awareness. Lastly, a method was proposed to install a 'school committee' and 'teen court in school' so students can make and apply their own rules and develop an attitude that is for legal knowledge and human rights, through the experience.