An Analysis on the Topic of Multicultural Change in the Social Studies Textbooks - Focused on the Social Studies Textbooks of 2015 Revised Curriculum for Secondary School -

Discursive Struggles for Multicultural Curriculum in South Korea

“…In order to unpack implicit messages of multicultural education promoted by the South Korean national curriculum, this paper analyzes discourses of multiculturalism embedded in the social studies national curriculum revised in 2011 and 2015 by employing critical discourse analysis (CDA). I focus on the social studies curriculum in particular because social studies have played a central role in incorporating multicultural ideas and values within the curriculum (Seol, 2018). In addition, investigation of national curriculum documents is especially important for the context of Korean education because the centralized education system of Korea has made all levels of schools follow detailed prescription of the national curriculum and thus teachers are not granted much curricular autonomy.…”