초등학교와 고등학교 사회과 교과서에 나타난 인천의 이미지

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study investigated the images of Incheon reflected in elementary and high school social studies textbooks. Incheon, emerging as one of the major cities in northeastern Asia, is the third largest city in Korea and adjacent to Seoul. The port city, however, associates with industrial complexes and negative images of pollution and crime. Historically speaking, the city had early adopted modern education, transportation, and industry. With all that, the ramification of the modernization has brought about negative images of the city. Textbooks are important educational media containing a nation s world view. Above all, textbooks have been regarded as the bible describing a body of knowledge in Korea. Research on textbook analysis, however, has shown that textbooks are fraught with omissions, distortions, misinterpretations, biases, stereotypes, and prejudices. Likewise, social studies textbooks are no exception. Of all textbooks, those in social studies which cover various aspects of a country, such as history, geography, society, culture, and economics, can particularly help to foster among students a proper understanding about other cities. The findings in elementary social studies textbooks showed that contents dealing with Incheon were rare and a composite image never does emerge, except for the 4th grade social studies textbooks containing history and culture mainly introducing historical relics of Ganghwado. In other words, images of Incheon found in elementary social studies textbooks give us an impression that Incheon has only a modern war history. On the other hand, major topics found in several high school social studies textbooks are the Incheon International Airport and the Chinatown treated in the sections of geography and economics. The rest of the topics of Incheon located in the textbooks are described as negative, notwithstand . According to textbook experts, the images created by the textbook coverage of a subject at the elementary and secondary levels remain stereotyped. This also applies to the images of Incheon in social studies textbooks. The findings in this study will be used as a source of correcting the images of Incheon.