This Study is to examine the composition of regional history textbooks in terms of the regionalization of Korean education. The regionalization of history education means the curriculum which is intended to facilitate to the mounting of students’ au...
This Study is to examine the composition of regional history textbooks in terms of the regionalization of Korean education. The regionalization of history education means the curriculum which is intended to facilitate to the mounting of students’ autonomies and initiatives through the teaching of regional history. This curriculum affords not only to comprehend concretely Korean history and cultures, but also to deepen the historical speculation, raise the historical consciousness in the regional royalty through highlighting the life cycle of local people. The regionalization of history education embodies its spirits and advances the veritable decentralization.
The regionalization of education curriculum bgan with that of making decision of curriculum at the Sixth Educational Curriculum. Local history is classified as an elementary level of history. In other words, local history at the elementary school level is dismissed as a temporary instrument to history education as it is taught only during the first sememter of the third or the fourth grade when one’s historical consciousness is about to begin to grow.
There are the fundamental limits in the actual Korean history textbook as that of localization education. It is necessary that the regional history is reconstructed and its textbook is compiled fitting in with the regionalization of history education.
At first, the history education curriculum of regionalization has to be thought about its continuation, systematization, and unification. The structure principle of teaching material on regional history can be studied in terms of the school grading. In other words, it has to be sought in accordance with the classification of school grade and be made up of different historical knowledge levels in the range of awareness and understanding.
The following example is to have been done in the selection of data and its variety. It shows Kyeongsangnamdo province history, especially Kaya, which was located in this area in the ancient Samguk age. In the history education of schools, Kaya has not been emphasized unlike ancient Samguk. That’s why the specific structure of teaching material on Kaya history has been tried.