The Status and Characteristics of Educative Curriculum Materials in Teaching and Learning History

This study analyzed the current status and characteristics of history educative curriculum materials, highlighting the importance of these materials in supporting teacher learning and professional growth. For this purpose, we examined four widely used history education curricular materials in the United States: Reading Like a Historian, Read.Inquire.Write., World History Project, and Teaching History, Learning Citizenship. The analysis revealed the various educative features designed to enhance teachers’ learning and growth in planning, implementing, and reflecting on lessons. The characteristic of history educative curriculum materials stood out in the structural components and the roles that these educative features played. This study discusses the implications of these educative curricular materials for history education in Korea and suggests directions for developing curricular materials that enhance teachers’ professional expertise and instructional capacity.