역사도시 교육의 특성과 내용 구성의 문제 - 개천(청계천)을 사례로 -

Abstract

The present study purposed to examine the characteristics and content composition of historic city education using the recently restored Cheonggye Stream as a case. Historic city education requires educational methods and contents distinguished from other areas of geography. Temporal and spatial representation based on old materials such as old maps and geography books is one of important methodological characteristics of historic city education and, through the methodology, students learn knowledge and images reconstructed from contemporary viewpoints. Gaecheon (the Cheonggye Stream) was closely related to the natural and cultural background of the development of Hanseongbu, the capital city of the Chosun Dynasty, and was formed according to the pre-modern principles of urban growth. Because the current Cheonggye Stream is not the exact representation of Gaecheon in Hanseongbu, its features during the Chosun Dynasty have been distorted. The Cheonggye Stream has several temporal layers from Gaecheon during the developmental period of the capital city in the Chosun Dynasty to the Cheonggye Stream covered and that restored as it is now. By comparing the restored Cheonggye Stream with the stream in the past, we can find the co-existence of different times in the same space. Historic city education is made at the contact point between the present and the past and, through the learning, we can understand the historicity of the city and differences in the principle of urban growth between the past and the present.