This study focused on the limitations of existing education plans for public institutions in social studies and attempted to explore alternative education plans to overcome them based on the theory of public value. The contents of education related to public institutions in the 2015 revised social studies curriculum were deleted in reorganizing to the 2022 revised curriculum of the large trend of reducing the contents of education. However, the contents related to public institutions are valuable in that they are materials that can deal with publicness, a concept that should be treated important in social studies education, based on specific phenomena or student experiences. The theory of public value falls under the content category of publicness, and emphasizes overcoming the ambiguity of the concept definition of publicness and forming values for institutions based on civic participation according to the democratic decision-making process. Based on this, the contents related to public institutions according to the 2015 revised curriculum had limitations in that inaccuracy of the concept definition of public institutions, the inconsistency of concepts and cases of public institutions, and the incongruity between the core concepts of background studies and actual educational content. Alternative educational directions included the introduction of expressions focusing on public values to replace public institutions, the use of public value diagnostic criteria appropriate to the student level, and the search for ways to realize public values in specific contexts using discussions and discussions.