초등 도덕교육에서의 덕목 이해와 동양고전을 활용한 덕교육 지도방안 연구

Abstract

Moral education is aimed at 'a righteous person with noble character' whose virtues are well harmonized for her/him. This goal meets the learning purpose of traditional Confucianism that encouraged the learners to study toward 'a great person'. It was moral education that such ancestors studied to be great people. It is necessary and meaningful to make an effort to find what books and how our ancestors studied; and what results they got. For, I believe such effort will not only provide the clue of moral education that we want to make true today but also have us verify the ultimate goal of moral education once again. In such aspects set forth above, this study is performed to seek how to efficiently teach the virtues in education of elementary school moral subject by using the classics relevant to Korean ideas and traditional cultures focused on Confucianism. The moral factors melted in the oriental classics show important issues in terms of making the content rich or developing various kinds of teaching-learning methods to make a desirable person whom the moral education course works toward. The virtue education goal of the traditional Confucianism that wants a person to go for moral community style life as a moral subject will be completely made as a result of the behavioral aspect that reflects the cognitional aspect and emotional aspect comprehensively. The close relation among the moral behavioral virtues of Confucianism is also a reflection of comprehensive moral life that the moral subject as a behaving person spreads out in the various real lives. It is not easy to explain and operate the traditional moral properly for the real life because it, of course, needs critical job in advance. Even if such effort of explanation and operation is at a basic level, however, it is needed in order to explain why we exist in the real life.