This article examined how ‘historical consciousness’ has been concep- tualized and studied in the field of history education since 1960s in Korea and revealed that there have been two different approaches to historical consciousness: one approach focused on students’ cognitive development in understanding history and the other was mainly related with offering an insight into historiographic agenda in history study as well as teaching.
This article suggested that for further development of theories and studies on historical consciousness, scholars and educator in the field of history education examine and discuss on the theories taking into consideration different approaches to and purposes of studying historical consciousness not only in Korea but also foreign countries.