An Autoethnography on the Instructional Practice Experience of Labor Related Human Rights Education in Elementary Social Studies Lessons

The purpose of this study is to explore the experiences of researcher who have practiced labor related human rights education in elementary school social lessons with an autoethnography and to provide implications for the operation of labor related human rights education linked to social studies. To gather evidence for this study, I complied a collection of lesson plans, student evaluations, and classroom observation records from a single semester. In addition, my own personal reflections and experiences as both a researcher and participant in the classroom served as a primary source of data. The research results are summarized as follows. First, I reorganized the curriculum by linking and integrating various subjects and creative experiential activities to practice labor related human rights education in social lessons, and conceived class activities by referring to various teaching and learning materials, but labor related human rights education could not be systematically dealt with. Second, the number of social lesson hours alone was not sufficient to deal with labor related human rights education. Third, it is not easy for fellow teachers to unite together, although the identity of a teacher who is a worker citizen must be established as a social textbook. Based on these research results, I would like to present implications for the practice of labor related human rights education in social studies lessons. First, it is necessary to develop teaching and learning materials for labor related human rights education centered on social studies achievement standards. Second, opportunities for understanding and experience of labor related human rights must be accompanied throughout educational activities. Third, it is necessary to change teachers’ perception of labor related human rights education.