The purpose of this study is to analyze the contents and utilization of textbook for social economy education and to suggest implications for improvement of social economy education. In recent years, ‘Social Economy’ has been attracting attention and various local governments and regional education offices are developing textbooks and educational projects. The contents of the social economy education textbook were analyzed by elementary school students textbook developed jointly by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education and the analysis criteria were divided into three components: knowledge, function, and value and attitude. The analysis of the use of textbook was conducted by two methods of online questionnaire and focus interview. The subjects were elementary school teachers working in four post - school cooperative schools in Seoul in 2017 and two textbook writers. As a result of the study, the textbook emphasizes values and attitudes related to social economy such as empathy and sharing, cooperation, and reciprocity considering students level of cognitive development, allowing students to participate in social economic organizations like cooperatives, And that it is composed of the workbook format of the participatory class, which is the center of the student. Through the analysis of the utilization of the textbook, it is found that the recognition and utilization of the textbook of social economy education is low, and the psychological burden of the teachers to be further instructed besides the textbook, the distribution of the textbook.