초등 사회과 교육과정과 교과서에서 묘사하는 인권과 법의 관계 : ‘인권존중과 정의로운 사회’ 단원을 중심으로

The purpose of this study is to analyze how the relationship between human rights and law is described in the unit that is supposed to teach human rights and law in the 2015 revised elementary social studies curriculum and textbooks. Accordingly, the content system and achievement standards in 2015 revised elementary social studies curriculum and contents of elementary social studies textbook(5-1) unit(Respect for Human Rights and Righteous Society) were analyzed. The results of the analysis are as follows. First, as a result of analyzing the content system of the curriculum, human rights are presented as the content of the sub-domain of the law. Second, it suggests that the relationship between law and human rights is linked by the basic rights of the Constitution according to the achievement standards of the curriculum. Third, looking at the results of the analysis of the composition of textbook units, human rights and laws show a structure that is related to the concept of rights. Fourth, each unit emphasizing law and human rights in the textbook contents has a common point in the explanation that humans have rights and that states and individuals are linked to the issue of rights. Fifth, each unit emphasizing law and human rights in the textbook contents reveals differences in presenting documents that are the basis for claiming rights and presenting victims of cases of rights. Considering these results, the relationship between human rights and law in the elementary social studies curriculum and textbooks shows a disagreement in various aspects, and the explanation of the relationship between the two is also ambiguous. In order to solve these problems, it is necessary to consider the consistent means of constructing new educational contents while considering the meaning of law and human rights as the contents of social studies education.