사회과 법교육에서 헌법재판소 결정의 교수학습자료화 원리와 실제: 분석 및 평가 경험을 중심으로

This study begins with the concern that constitutional court decisions have not been fully utilized in actual classroom settings, despite their influence on major public issues in Korean society and their educational value as instructional materials in law-related education, These decisions are often used merely to convey summarized conclusions, not expanded into students’ deeper inquiry experiences. However, in a time when active civic participation in judicial and legislative processes is increasingly emphasized, there is a need for an educational approach that engages students in analyzing and evaluating authoritative decisions like those of the Constitutional Court, thereby fostering legal reasoning and judgment. Thus, this study aims to explore principles for reconstructing Constitutional Court decisions into instructional materials that provide students with learning experiences that focus on legal analysis and evaluation. It then presents a practical example using a decision on the death penalty case to illustrate how these principles can be applied. As a result, it proposes three principles for reconstructing decision texts—appropriateness, contextualization, and structuring—and four principles for designing inquiry questions—understanding, analysis, evaluation, and connection. Based on these findings the study emphasizes the need to (1) develop a structured database of educationally adapted Constitutional Court decisions, (2) strengthen teachers’ capacities to guide analytical and evaluative discussions on legal reasoning, and (3) further examine the components and educational implications of legal judgment ability.