한국윤리교육학회

Recently, democratic citizenship education has received a spotlight in terms of its educational nature and necessities, both home and abroad. Considering that, this study tried to figure out future directions of the democratic citizenship education in a macro view: First, a moral aspect that gives a basic foundation. Second, an integrative aspect that provides a principle for selection and organization of contents. Third, a daily aspect that shares a principle for educational methods and applications. These three are in order basically, but they can interact with each other. Using the philosophies of these three directions, democratic citizenship education can be practiced with multiple strategies such as creating a new subject, converting an existing subject, or reinforcing related content elements in existing subjects. In each case, moral education should play the key role in establishing the direction and selecting the contents, since democratic citizenship education should be founded based on morality first.