A Case Study on Strategy of Inventing Region in the Elementary Social Studies Curriculum Practice: Focusing on the Case Analysis of Jeju in Korea

This paper conducted a case study on the strategy of inventing region in elementary school social studies curriculum practices in Korea. The research materials are regional textbooks published in the Jeju area from the 5th curriculum period to the 2015 revised curriculum period. As a result of the analysis, textbooks in the case region showed different methods of composing textbooks for each curriculum period. The representative landscapes of the region and the layout of the units that appeared on the covers of textbooks varied from period to period. In addition, the methods of selecting and arranging regional cultural landscapes were also differentiated by period. In the case of regional textbooks, there was no consistent attempt to construct textbooks centering on the indigenous cultural landscape. In short, converting the region's uniqueness into a textbook in the case area was a state of competing meanings. In the future, the unique content of the case region needs to be more emphasized. In other words, it was confirmed that the attempt to localize the curriculum was a curriculum decision-making situation, and a rational process of deliberation should follow.