The Journal of The Korean Association of Geographic and Environmental Education ISSN:1226-511X(Print) 2586-5641(Online) 한국지리환경교육학회지

The purpose of this study is to consider the geographic curriculum development direction and development process according to the revised 2022 curriculum, and to seek for supporting its successful settlement and implicating for development of the next geographic curriculum. The revised 2022 curriculum was designed to innovate our education system so that we can grow into a “leading people with inclusion and creativity” by cultivating basic knowledge and capabilities to respond actively to future social changes. In the revised 2022 geographic curriculum, the curriculum was developed by comprehensively considering capacity development, learner-specific curriculum, content redundancy reduction, appropriation of learning volume and level, content validity improvement, sequence securing, and lesson improvement of future-oriented teaching/learning and evaluation measures. In addition, it was intended to reflect the various opinions of educational officials, national and social requirements in accordance with the purpose of ‘curriculum with the people’. In particular, it was intended to faithfully develop the newly opened high school geography elective curriculum, and accordingly, the contents of the middle school geography curriculum changed significantly. However, it still remains a task to specify the name of the geography subject in the current curriculum compilation table and to separate the social studies in middle school into Geography and General social studies.