화서(華西) 문인공동체(門人共同體) 강회(講會)의 실제

Abstract

Hwaseo(華西) Lee, Hangro is a confucian scholar at 19th century. He taught confucianism to many disciples by collective learning(講會) that Hwaseo community carried out regularly. The collective learning was performed in various place as Temple, Private room. The participants must have learn the text in alone for daily life and presented the results of the individual learning in that time. The collective learning is composed of preparation, entrance, learning through blind method, learning with reading, tea-time, prize award, reading community rules, appointment of next collective learning, closing. This learning method were based on individual Confucian learning in daily life and they corrected their judgments and thought by inquiring and discussing in liberal atmosphere. They were not belong to sheowon(書院) and hyanggyo(鄕校), in other words they learned their Confucianism in Hwaseo community. That is different to learning pattern that is operated day after day in public schools. Their Community learning system reveals the diversity of Confucian education methods in the late of Chosun Dynasty.