영화 “That’s What I am”을 통해 본 삶의 형태로서의 존엄과 ‘틈’의 교육

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to explore, through the movie “That’s what I am,” what it means to take dignity as a form of life and how an educational approach guiding to such a form of life can be exemplified. The film addresses the formation of “self-identity” and “self-knowledge,” what it means to use one’s own reasoning through the relationship between teachers and students at school, and what it means to be courageous about using it. In the film, dignity is embodied by the main character, who grows up feeling encouraged by an unusual friend who understands himself and the world with his own power and decides and acts accordingly. Understanding the world with one’s own power is to be aware of the “estrangement” between words and things and to fill the gap with self-sense and experience. Moreover, it is suggested that this form of life can be presented as a way to reinterpret Kant’s “courage” in relation to the meaning of enlightenment. Furthermore, this article explores how feeling dignity in someone’s life can affect self-relationships through the conceptual characteristics of “self-knowledge” and suggests that teachers’ involvement can result from the constantly interpretive process of “estrangement” between the student’s exposed appearance and possibility.