Political education aims at having students with correct political knowledge, improving their ability to solve political matters rationally for the quality of 'democratic citizen', and ultimately, contributing the establishment of a democratic nation ...
Political education aims at having students with correct political knowledge, improving their ability to solve political matters rationally for the quality of 'democratic citizen', and ultimately, contributing the establishment of a democratic nation and welfare society, and build up her sovereignty in international relations.
The contents of political education in school are very changeable according to change of politics, economy, culture and society. When we look upon our country, our 'national curriculum process' has changed many times, especially political education has changed very much according to political transitions in a sensitive way.
This study discusses and suggest the desirable direction of political education by analyzing the contents of political education ranging from the 6th to 7th curriculua periods and recognizing their time era. The method for research is studies for senior's literatures and analysis of textbooks that have been done together. 6 main-subjects and 18 sub- subjects are chosen in politics area and set as standards to analyze the textbooks. The following is the result.
First, Comparing the analysis of political educational goals, the goal of the 6th「Politics」is to develop the students' critical consciousness and abilities for positive attendance in society and systematic understandings of political events. The goal of the 7th「Politics」is to improve the abilities of understanding political issues and to positive attend in community with duty. So, we could see the goal of 7th「Politics」emphasizes "duty" as democratic citizenship.
Second, in the aspect of teaching and learning methods, I could say that 「Politics」textbooks of 7th national curriculum period helps learners study by themselves by focus on process of studying, such as hybridization of genres, more diverse visual data than before and increases in student - centered activities.
Third, the 6th national curriculum, which was greatly affected by the people's eager desire of democratization in process of republic's formation, wasn't described " Nation" and " Power", this presented to us the 6th republic intend to free itself of trend unswerving in the contents of legitimacy of governmental power in past. Also,「Politics」textbooks of 6th curriculum assign many pages about 'local autonomy system' because the 6th republic which restart 'local autonomy system is the time era of the 6th national curriculum.
In general, the contents of political education during the 6th to 7th national curriculum focuses on the cultivation of quality of democratic citizens compared to the previous curriculum period, namely, they were emphasized to include the contents of fundamental principle of democratic politics and democratic citizenship almost through the whole textbook. As compared with the 6th, we notice that the「Politics」of 7th national curriculum treat contents of 'welfare society'', which shows us 'welfare society' has been our important issues since civilian government which is the time era of 7th national curriculum.
Consequently, the contents of political education in our country have changed according to political transition. We now have four kinds of authorized「Politics」textbooks for high school because we have improved textbook system the result of Civilian Government' efforts. It is an amazing progress compared to the past that we only had national「Politics」textbook. Though the authorized「Politics」textbooks give students more positive materials such as, well organized system, various learning methods and data etc. than previous textbooks, we must try to improve authorized「Politics」textbooks freely, and we will be able to provide diverse textbooks for our students' globalization.