高峯 奇大升의 學習生涯史 硏究

Abstract

This study aims at reenact the process of Learning of Go-bong. He was a typical scholar-bureaucrat in the 16th century Korea. Therefore his case would give many hints to understand the character of learning in those days. But because current studies about him mainly focus on his adult life, his earlier learning history is not clear. This study may give some help to understand him more fully. The results are as follows: First, his earlier learning stages can be graded in three levels. The first level(7-14 yr.) can be called as the elementary stage, the second level(15-22 yr.) as the preparation stage for minor civil service examination('So-Ggwa'), and third level(23-32 yr.) as the preparation stage for major civil service examination('Dea-Ggwa'). Second, each stage had its own characteristic curriculum and proceedde by different learning motives. For example, in the first stage he studied hard because of other's praises and encouragements. In the second stage, he advanced his learning by the desire for success in civil service examination and in the third stage he was motivated by both some hope to become a sage and the earlier desire. Third, the entire process of learning of Go-bong could shed lights on the understanding the nature of his learning and others' in 16th century. He and others felt great discord between two kinds of learning. One is the test-oriented learning and the other is the self-transformation learning to become a sage. The conflict can be said to be a foundation of the learning in those days.