The Need and Meaning of Global Geopolitical Education in Elementary Social Studies

The space in planet is limited but aspiration for good place is limitless. Conflicts among nations always exist and power games occur at all global scales. This is represented a geopolitics of war in real world. Traditionally military power centered geopolitics of concentration faces inhuman and immoral disastrous incidents of war and it is a very foolish thing. The nature of geopolitics is based on pursuing to plenteous space in human life. If expansion of space is possible peacefully, military power is not needed. The border crossed geopolitics of diffusion has been formed by globalization in ordinary life and global scale. This means a possibility to geopolitics of peace. Korean peninsula is unstable area because of collision and intervention by powers. Recently North Korea dispatches troops to Russia-Ukraine war occurred 2022 and this military action makes a geopolitical instability real. The need and meaning of geopolitical social recognition becomes important in dimension of global civic education actually. Elementary social studies can be defined as a subject for social efficacy and literacy. Global geopolitical education must be created and practiced intentionally for peace of Korean peninsula at this point.