The purpose of this study is to analyze the studies of instructional criticism involved with social studies
by main subject element and to suggest the typology system by deriving the types of instructional
criticism studies and develop the broader categories.
In order to solve the study problem, 8 subject elements were extracted from 21 academic materials and
they were classified into 6 types depending on the subject of study. In other words, the studies of
instructional criticism in social studies were classified into 6 types.
And then, 6 types were preliminarily named as ‘study on theorization of instructional criticism’(type1),
‘study on method of instructional criticism’(type2), ‘study on writing instructional critique’(type3), ‘study
on analyzing instructional critique’(type4), ‘study on methods to practice instructional criticism in
field’(type5), and ‘meta-analysis study on instructional criticism studies’(type6).
Also, 6 types were classified into 4 categories based on the contents and purpose of study: substance
study, meta-study, procedure study, and field study. And they were classified again into two upper
categories to establish the status and system of instructional criticism studies: theory and practice.