역사가의 직업적 윤리 의식과 사회적 책임－ 교학사 한국사 교과서 사태에 대한 고찰-

This paper takes part in the current social debate of Kyohaksa Korean history textbook. This textbook is notorious for it's ideological bias which, though supported by government party and some conservative part of civil society, incurred vehement criticisms in most part of both civil society and education field. While these criticisms generally focus on it's ultra conservative and pro－Japanese interpretation of Korean modern and contemporary history, this paper questions whether the writers bear historian's professional ethics and social responsibility in their minds. Historian's professional ethics asks that historians should consider their propositions as just hypotheses which are to be revised and even annulled by new proofs and more rational interpretations. However, the writers can be accused of their ideological obstinacy to the extent that only their textbook tells the truth of historical fact with which large part of citizens and history teachers do not sympathize and agree. The writers seem to think of their textbook as official textbook which is not admitted in democratic society. Moreover they forget historian's social responsibility which requires historian's moral duty to preserve the values which democratic citizenry generally believes community should pursue. In conclusion they fail to negotiate their narratives in public sphere to lose the opportunity to entitle their textbook as a public history.