고전문학 교육 텍스트의 전문적 특성과 교양적 성격 -대학의 전공 교육으로서의 위상에 주목하여

Abstract

Traditionally, there has been a general perception that universities are immersed in specialized research that creates new knowledge, and the contents of education established hereby are spread through secondary education. However, as Korean language education itself moved away from academic-centered knowledge education and moved to a communication-centered function center, classical literature education also has had a gradual change from the education content focusing on the existing literature theory and history of literature to education centered on the linguistic attributes of literature. Classical literature has two educational properties. One is a property that is constantly enjoyed and reinterpreted while being handed down over a long time, which has a certain emotional influence even today. This can be conceptualized as a liberal arts character. The other is the fact that it shows the original form of culture as a material that contains the appearance of life at the time. This gave it an academic status of acquiring literacy for classical texts. I attempt to conceptualize this in terms of professional characteristics. Every classical literature text has its own inherent value. However, even if the original text is valuable, it does not immediately acquire educational value. ‘Liberal arts’ refers to creative understanding or knowledge that is embodied through acquiring a certain cultural ideal, and its content changes according to the changing times or the cultural ideology of a nation. As an educational philosophy of classical literature, I emphasize that ‘culture’ has a meaning encompassing history and philosophy. Here, the concept that responds well to culture is considered liberal arts. At this time, in the case of Korea, attention is paid to the concept term of ‘culture’ in the composition of the curriculum. In the case of Japan, the concept term of ‘liberal arts’ is highlighted as important in the composition of the curriculum. Here, I will not make a value-based evaluation of the difference between the two countries. The difference in perception between the two countries is because each has its own historical background and reason. This trend comes to affect the university curriculum in Korea, and even in undergraduate major classes at universities, there has been a situation where we are thinking about new teaching methods. As a result, it shows the characteristics that flow from the existing professional characteristics to the strengthening of liberal arts characteristics.