This study was to select and systematize the elements of history education learning by elementary, middle and high schools. In the first year's study, to develop learning content elements for each school level, it was discussed how hierarchies could b ...
This study was to select and systematize the elements of history education learning by elementary, middle and high schools. In the first year's study, to develop learning content elements for each school level, it was discussed how hierarchies could be set between the learning content elements and how to prepare the evaluation criteria in order to proceed this setting. To do this purpose, the learning content elements are extracted and organized through the history textbooks currently being used. In addition, it was carried out how the foreign history education curriculum was conducted, and how it was reflected in the textbook. As a result, the content and systemicity of learning contents in the history curriculum and textbooks of France, Japan, China, England and Germany were analyzed.
In the second year's study, the content elements in the current history curriculum and history textbooks were analyzed, and the problems in the composition of the content elements presented in these contents were identified. In addition, we suggested elements of learning content that could be selected as the core. To conduct this suggestion, it was checked how much the content elements overlapped when dealing with a common topic in textbooks, and the advantages and disadvantages were analyzed. Furthermore, a plan was proposed to improve this systematically. As the textbooks are passage through which students directly access history content, it was examined that systematization of learning contents should focus on systematizing textbook descriptions, not curriculum.
In the third year, based on the results of the previous study, we reviewed methods for organizing history subjects and sought organizational methods necessary to practice them. On the other hand, through a microscopic approach to content elements, the actual learning elements required in history education at each school level are analyzed and materialized learning methods. Furthermore, by working on a macro level to materialize this, we sought ways to organize content elements for each subject and organizational methods. On the basis of these studies, the results of research conducted based on the history of each period, field, and country were proposed, and it was checked by reflecting the historical perspective of how valid this was. The results of the research conducted in this study were published in academic journals specializing in history education at the end of each study. Through this, the results of this study were shared with academia, and the basis for deepening and expanding the discussion on this was laid.