고전교육의 쟁점과 사례 연구 －D대학의 <클라시카> 운영을 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine some of the issues surrounding classical education in Korean universities, as well as to suggest the desirable direction that classical education should be taking. To this end, the researcher measured the performance of the <Classical> curriculum through a questionnaire as it appears in the classical education department at D University. As a result of the survey, students were generally satisfied with the goal and direction of their classical education. However, the method of grouping by group shows a lot of 'normal' responses, suggesting that instructors should think about their teaching methods more closely when designing their classes. In the case of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, both of which were taught in the second semester of 2019, the researcher stressed that the goal of the classical education is neither the means of character education nor of communication education. Firstly, classical education should be implemented as an extension of critical and creative thinking through ironic reading. Activities should be developed that allow students to raise their own critical questions about the text by asking themselves questions and then having their fellow students answer them. In addition, classical education should be implemented as life-based learning and re-contextualization education. In other words, students should be able to reflect on both their lives, and the lives of other people, based on the text they are reading, and to see the life of their community in those texts. To do this, students must immerse themselves in classical texts. As a way to increase the degree of immersion, the researcher suggested writing a reply to the writer (actually a professor), exchanging correspondences by assigning roles, summarizing and reconstructing texts in teams, and having students write their own scenarios.