현행 교과서를 통해 살펴본 <홍길동전> 교육의 현황과 과제-중학교 국어 교과서를 중심으로-

Abstract

In this article, we examine the status of Honggildongjeon education and its tasks by targeting current middle school Korean language textbooks. Honggildongjeon has long been recognized for its high value in Korean literary history and education. Numerous studies have been conducted thus far on enjoying the status of a type of power outage, and this is the same for discussions related to education. Nevertheless, research dealing with the current aspects of Honggildongjeon education is incomplete, and most of them only present fragmentary discussions on textbook content and educational aspects. In addition, only one of the three textbooks is analyzed according to a specific literary education perspective, and teaching-learning plans are discussed in advance, including Honggildongjeon as a key sanction. Currently, it is difficult to grasp the complete picture of Honggildongjeon education. If we agree that the classical nature of a classic is formed from the fact that it presents the direction of life by giving us a certain teaching here and now, and that educational and literary values are produced in complementary relationships based on this, examining the present aspect of Honggildongjeon education is effective not only in literary research but also in education. This is also valid for work seeking the developmental direction of Honggildongjeon education. The three current textbooks contain Honggildongjeon as the main sanction; unfortunately, one version is used throughout the first to the third grades of middle school. The grading standards of the units in each textbook also differ. Although this is not intentionally sequenced, it is possible to examine aspects of how a work is taught based on its grading standards, and thereby broadly review how education about classical novels is conducted in middle school. Accordingly, this paper presents discussions of all the 2015 revised middle school Korean language textbooks dealing with Honggildongjeon. The current status and tasks of Honggildongjeon education are discussed by examining the unit and learning goals, pattern of the text, information and questions on the wings, content of learning activities, and completion activities of small and university units. It was found that the textbook implemented according to the achievement standards related to conflict revealed that there are areas in which learners find it difficult to clearly understand the content and nature of the conflict in the textbook, that scenes that are difficult to see as resolving conflicts are treated as resolved, and that the methods of solution are not educational, even if any conflict is considered resolved. Next, the textbook focusing on “the viewer” in the novel needs pre-reading activities directly related to Honggildongjeon, and the information and questions on the scenes and wings contained in the main text must be supplemented in a direction closely linked to the learning goals of the sub-unit. Finally, textbooks written according to achievement standards related to social and cultural backgrounds need to supplement the learning activities that compare and examine the appearance of society in the work with the current social and cultural background in consideration of the connection with knowledge that can be formed through Honggildongjeon. In addition, more detailed work is required considering the situation then-there and now-here in relation to learning activities related to the problem of spatiotemporal segregation. In fact, now that the 2022 revised curriculum has already been announced, this discussion is somewhat late. Nevertheless, I hope that this paper will make a small contribution to the conception of the developmental education of Honggildongjeon by revealing the educational effects of the current textbook or by encouraging a detailed examination of the problems that need to be supplemented or revised. In addition, whenever the curriculum is revised, it is hoped that it will help convey and cultivate the value of classical literature, which is rapidly decreasing in Korean language departments.