中･高等學校 漢文 敎科書의 傳統的 價値觀 具現과 그 特性

Abstract

This paper analyzes the contents of traditional values in textbooks according to the learning goals of ‘Classical Chinese Culture’ of 2009 Curriculum. Interestingly, some learning goals are somewhat ambiguous – is it related to understand traditional values or to the classical texts? Is the “values” really traditional or modern? As a matter of fact, the Classical Chinese course inevitably related to value system of the past directly or indirectly, because it deals with texts, regardless of its genre, written in the context of the old value system. In this sense, all the texts in the middle and high school textbooks are all the expressions of traditional values. Still, when it comes to learning curriculum, we should draw the line between the direct and indirect goal of learning traditional values. What we have to decide is our attitude toward the traditional values. Should we evaluate it something positive and inheritable, or something we should overcome? Because so called traditional values in the textbooks is actually the result of modern revaluation and revision, if some changes of explaining the old value system appear in each revision of curriculum, it should be the reflection of today’s interpretation and revaluation of the past. The role of Classical Chinese textbook here is to search for the possibilities of re-interpretation of traditional values born in old rural communities in today’s perspective, even though ‘traditional values’ here is already the result of past interpretation. We should also keep this in mind when the sense of traditional value is linked to learning goals only indirectly, because we have to be careful when teaching outdated or inadequate lessons.