국어과 교육과정에 나타난 아동문학 장르 인식 고찰

Abstract

Teachers of literature should be able to select works that are appropriate for their learners’ levels and use them in their classes. At the elementary level, students should be able to distinguish a children’s poem or fairy tale from a poem or novel, and be able to design and implement language arts lessons based on their understanding of children’s literary genres. The classification of literary genres used in the Korean language curriculum has changed with each revised curriculum. This study examined the historical changes and current status of the recognition of children’s literary genres in the Korean language curriculum and sought ways to improve them. The results of examining the terms for children’s literary genres that appeared in the Korean language curriculum from the first curriculum period to the 2022 revised curriculum period are as follows. (1) From the 1st curriculum period to the 3rd curriculum period, there was no separate field of literature, but the terms for children’s literary genres were used in various fields such as speaking, listening, reading, and writing. It can be seen that the developers recognized and used the specificity of children’s literature genres according to the hierarchy of learners in developing the curriculum. (2) In the 4th curriculum period, “Literature” was established as an independent field of the Korean language subject, and the genres of children’s literature were concisely presented. This trend continued until the 7th curriculum period, and the genre system was organized into three genres including poetry, stories, and screenplays, or four genres including essays, and the genre terms of children’s literature were also used. (3) Since the 2007 revised curriculum period, media genres have been introduced, and the proportion of the children’s literature genre has changed with each curriculum revision. In the revised 2015 curriculum, terms for children’s literature genres were used separately, but in the revised 2022 curriculum, subgenre names within children’s literature are not used. It is expected that the children’s literature genre terms will be properly restored in the next curriculum revision.