How and What Kind of Economic Citizenship Can We Develop through Economic Education in Korean Precollege School?

Abstract

For the last 70 years the economic education in Korean precollege schools has gone through several stages. In the early stages of the process, economic education was conducted to make students understand separate economic knowledge, economic problems of the Korean economy and their solutions. After the mid-1970s, economic education laid stress on understanding the basic economic concepts and principles, and methods of economic research, namely the structure of economics. Now it is being done mainly by compromising these two directions at each schoollevel. In this study 1 conceptualize the actual activities of Korean prec이lege economic education as three main 마pes; First, economic socialization (passive and active socialization), second, economics education, and last, participatory economic education. Then 1 suggest an actual plan or method of implementing economic education at every schoollevel.