고등학교 경제교육에서의 기업의 사회적 책임에 대한 논의

This study seeks to provide direction on how to address the role of corporate, especially social responsibility, in high school economic education. To this end, I analyzed the role and behavior of corporations in the Integrated social studies and economic education of the 2015 revised curriculum and the 2022 revised curriculum, and summarized the results as follows. The integrated social studies curriculum focuses on corporate social responsibility, and textbooks also emphasize corporate social responsibility along the curriculum. The 2022 revised curriculum also specifies the desirable role of corporations, so it is likely that the new textbooks will be similarly organized. The economic education curriculum in elective courses presents only the economic role of corporates, and textbooks focus on the role of corporates as profit-maximization, demanders of production factors, and suppliers of commodities. However, most textbooks do provide some coverage of corporate social responsibility. In the 2022 revised curriculum, not only does it not specify corporate social responsibility, but it also does not specify the role of economic agents, which means that there will be even less room for social responsibility. In the case of social responsibility related to profit-maximization, society's demands on corporate are naturally reflected in their behavior, but otherwise, it is difficult to require corporates to do so as part of their philanthropic behavior. Corporate’ social responsibility is more likely to be fulfilled efficiently and fairly when it is addressed in relation to corporate’ profits.