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

This study aims to explore the 2022 revised middle school “Social Studies” Geography curriculum and promote a contextual understanding of the newly developed curriculum. There are three main directions for the development of the 2022 revised middle school Geography curriculum. First, instead of the existing systematic geography, the 2022 revised curriculum was developed into regional geography. Second, the contents were structured in a way that korean geography was learned after learning world geography. Third, the cultivation of competencies and citizenship through geography education was emphasized. There are six key characteristics of the geography curriculum as follows: (1) elaboration on the content sequences of elementary, middle, and high school geography; (2) consideration on the geography education connected with the lives of middle school students; (3) emphasis on location knowledge and location learning as basic knowledge for ‘more geographical’ understanding, (4) promotion of multi-layered, dynamic, and practical understanding of regions, (5) strengthening values-attitudes areas and emphasis on transformative competencies; and (6) emphasizing geographical skills using geographic information and geospatial technologies.