@article{ART003207191},
author={jeong sangho},
title={A study on the current status and direction of improvement of the description of the ‘Democratic Republic’ : Focusing on the high school ‘Politics and Law’ textbook},
journal={Civil Society and NGO},
issn={1599-8568},
year={2025},
volume={23},
number={1},
pages={71-110}
TY - JOUR
AU - jeong sangho
TI - A study on the current status and direction of improvement of the description of the ‘Democratic Republic’ : Focusing on the high school ‘Politics and Law’ textbook
JO - Civil Society and NGO
PY - 2025
VL - 23
IS - 1
PB - The Third Sector Institute
SP - 71
EP - 110
SN - 1599-8568
AB - This paper aims to derive the current status of the description of Article 1 (Democratic Republic) of the Constitution in the ‘Politics and Law’ and ‘Integrated Social Studies’ textbooks of social studies and to identify tasks for improvement. As a result, several important characteristics and limitations were discovered. First, all five ‘Politics and Law’ textbooks include Article 1 of the Constitution in the text. However, just like the introduction to constitutional studies, they emphasize its meaning only in terms of the state form, and are passive or negative about the necessity of an ideological and normative approach called republicanism. Second, all five current textbooks explain the core principle of the democratic republic as ‘national sovereignty.’ However, the current textbooks’ explanation method has the problem of being immersed in the simple logic that democracy = national sovereignty, republic = national sovereignty, and ultimately democratic republic = national sovereignty. Third, except for ‘Ethics and Ideology’, which adopted republicanism as an independent unit through the revised moral education curriculum in 2015, neither ‘Politics and Law’ nor ‘Integrated Social Studies’ textbooks in social studies explained the meaning of a democratic republic in relation to republicanism. Meanwhile, this paper proposed the application of republican theory as a new direction for improving the writing of textbooks on democratic republics. Specifically, it is necessary to explain the meaning of a democratic republic in Article 1 of the Constitution not only as a non-monarchical state form, but also as the five principles that run through republicanism: citizen participation, pursuit of the common good, and freedom as non-domination in terms of values, and mixed constitution or rule of law in terms of institutions.
KW - Article 1 of the Constitution. Democratic Republic;Republicanism;Politics and Law;and National Sovereignty
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jeong sangho. (2025). A study on the current status and direction of improvement of the description of the ‘Democratic Republic’ : Focusing on the high school ‘Politics and Law’ textbook. Civil Society and NGO, 23(1), 71-110.
jeong sangho. 2025, "A study on the current status and direction of improvement of the description of the ‘Democratic Republic’ : Focusing on the high school ‘Politics and Law’ textbook", Civil Society and NGO, vol.23, no.1 pp.71-110.
jeong sangho "A study on the current status and direction of improvement of the description of the ‘Democratic Republic’ : Focusing on the high school ‘Politics and Law’ textbook" Civil Society and NGO 23.1 pp.71-110 (2025) : 71.
jeong sangho. A study on the current status and direction of improvement of the description of the ‘Democratic Republic’ : Focusing on the high school ‘Politics and Law’ textbook. 2025; 23(1), 71-110.
jeong sangho. "A study on the current status and direction of improvement of the description of the ‘Democratic Republic’ : Focusing on the high school ‘Politics and Law’ textbook" Civil Society and NGO 23, no.1 (2025) : 71-110.
jeong sangho. A study on the current status and direction of improvement of the description of the ‘Democratic Republic’ : Focusing on the high school ‘Politics and Law’ textbook. Civil Society and NGO, 23(1), 71-110.
jeong sangho. A study on the current status and direction of improvement of the description of the ‘Democratic Republic’ : Focusing on the high school ‘Politics and Law’ textbook. Civil Society and NGO. 2025; 23(1) 71-110.
jeong sangho. A study on the current status and direction of improvement of the description of the ‘Democratic Republic’ : Focusing on the high school ‘Politics and Law’ textbook. 2025; 23(1), 71-110.
jeong sangho. "A study on the current status and direction of improvement of the description of the ‘Democratic Republic’ : Focusing on the high school ‘Politics and Law’ textbook" Civil Society and NGO 23, no.1 (2025) : 71-110.
