전쟁기 아동매체 『소년세계』의 독자 전략과 작문 교육의 의의

Abstract

The purposes of this study were to examine the formation process of children readers by the diverse strategies planned by children’s media in the historical reality of war wounds with Boys’ World, a magazine for children, and analyze its correlations with composition education for children based on readers’ correspondence and prize contests for children’s literature. Those efforts would help to discuss how to drive children’s desire for expressing their opinions in the middle of war during which dailiness was destroyed in the aspect of relations between the subject of publication and the readers and figure out the meanings of communication that formed an emotional sense of fellowship through the writings of children of similar age and circumstances, thus supplementing the directing points of media publication and literary creation education. In the historical reality of war, the magazine maintained the interest level in children readers by calling them actively and established a communication structure by having them telling their stories personally, which provides a lot of implications for the current efforts to help children look at their many problems on their own and develop the imagination of hope to overcome them for themselves. In addition, the magazine regarded nature as living being in human life instead of the object of contemplation and thus made it possible to form a discourse of hope like its principle, which offers an important lesson to writing education for children. The magazine also shared emotions with children based on its established responsibility for “connection of spirit” by selecting and criticizing children’s works and thus contributed to love for mankind and healthy sociality, which offers significant meanings for today’s people.