2022 개정 교육과정과 <법과 사회> 과목의 전망

Through a historical review of the development process of law-related education in Korea, this study conducted an analysis on the revival status and characteristics of <Law and Society> in the 2022 revised curriculum. Based on this, we sought a plan to revitalize school law-related education according to the revision of the curriculum. Law-related education in Korea was implemented as part of political education for a long time after liberation. In the 7th revised curriculum, <Law and Society> was adopted as independent subject, but after being integrated into <Law and Politics>, it now exists as <Politics and Law>. In the 2022 revised curriculum, <law and society> was revived, but it became a career elective subject rather than a general elective subject. Accordingly, changes in the operation of the subject are requested. In this study, we pointed out the factors that could be a crisis in legal education, and analyzed the problems of the composition of the large units of the <Law and Society>. In order for the <Law and Society> to be successfully operated, the following points were suggested. First, it is necessary to restore the identity of law-related education raised in the process of developing law-related education, that is, to secure its status as an independent subject to implement the teaching and learning method of law-related education. Second, it is necessary to implement the characteristics of law-related education differentiated from legal education and reflect its characteristics as civic education, and to approach it as a case-type law-related education rather than concept-oriented law-related education. Finally, we proposed a method of operating subjects in preparation for changes in the curriculum and educational policy.