문화예술교육의 사회적, 문화적 맥락과 Cultural Arts의 개념

Abstract

The term 'munhwayesul kyoyuk' (“Arts & Culture Education” by Korea Arts & Culture Education Service) can be translated as cultural arts education in English. Munhwayesul kyoyuk in Korea means something close to arts education primarily for amateurs, hands-on experience, and realizing social context through the artistic or cultural activities. Cultural arts can be the counterpart of 'munhwayesul' in the term 'munhwayesul kyoyuk'. Roh Moo-hyun government inaugurated in 2003 started a new policy called 'munhwayesul kyoyuk', and the policy caused problems of understanding the meaning and the identity of itself. When the government invented the policy to make teaching jobs for artists at that time, it coined a new term 'munhwayesul kyoyuk' by combining 'munhwa kyoyuk' (Cultural Education) and 'yesul kyoyuk' (Arts Education) which were alredy existing. The word 'munhwayesul' in the new term has been considered abnormal since its birth as the word had no academically valid origin. Also, there has been no concensus on the meaning of 'munhwayesul' while nobody has been skeptical about the meaning of 'kyoyuk' that means education. The confusion in understanding the meaning of 'munhwayesul' caused the difficulty of translating the term 'munhwayesul kyoyuk' into English. As the practices and the achievements of 'munhwayesul kyoyuk' are examined, the common charicteristics between 'munhwayesul', which is the content of 'munhwayesul kyoyuk', and cultural arts are discovered. Therefore, Munhwayesul can be translated as cultural arts. With this translation that finds 'munhwayesul' is not “abnormal” as its legitimate conuterpart, cultural arts, exists, 'munhwayesul kyoyuk' can acquire a proper identity for itself as cultural arts education.