동아시아사와 세계사, 왜 무엇을 가르치나? - ‘농업 패싱’의 교류사를 묻는다 -

Abstract

Why and what do we teach in school history education? The ‘what’ corresponding to the contents of teaching and the ‘why’ corresponding to the goal are closely related to each other. This paper identified the goals of East Asian history and world history presented in the national curricula (2007~2022), and examined whether the content system was structured to coincide with the goals.BR The core of the five goals is the cultivation of historical thinking power. It is a long-standing goal that has been maintained since 1955. In contrast, the content system has been revised toward the history of exchange going with ‘passing agriculture’, thereby growing away from the goal of understanding the regional and periodical characteristics of East Asia in a balanced perspective. The content system as such also conflicts with the new goal of subjecthood to participate in sustainable development, which was added to the 2022 curriculum because traditional agriculture in East Asia played roles not only in food production but also in ecological preservation.BR The emphasis on the history of exchanges as such is responding to the spread of marketism. The current curriculum system that selects the contents as such and provides it as elective subjects is no different from leaving history education to the logic of the market. Then, why is it necessary to cultivate historical thinking power, which is the long-standing goal of history education? There is a need to reorganize the content system around challenging themes that reflect an ecological perspective.