예비유아교사의 죽음교육에 있어 ‘진도씻김굿’의 활용가능성 탐색

Abstract

The fact that death education has a positive impact on life has already been confirmed by many researchers. Therefore, death education should be done from early childhood like other education. To this end, education programs for early childhood teachers should include death education. In addition, death education should link to various activities (curriculum) rather than being conducted alone, and opportunities for exploring and understanding traditional culture as described in the Nuri program, which is a national level education course, should be provided. This process should precede the death education for young children to make it more natural. Therefore, this study was conducted to examine use of the ‘Jindo purification rite’ for the death education of pre-service early childhood teachers. To do this, I first reviewed the meaning of death in Shamanism focused on the ‘Jindo purification rite’ and the thoughts and images of those who are facing death. As a result, two key phrases ‘continuous relationship’ and ‘continuous life’ were found. It confirmed that these two phrase can help overcome fear of life and death, give comfort and hope to life, and awaken the importance of life. In addition, it revealed that the purification ritual in the process of the ‘Jindo purification rite’ could serve as a factor of attracting the interest of young children. These results suggested that the ‘Jindo purification rite’ can be used in the death education of the pre-service early childhood teachers. Accordingly, the application method was proposed combining an “Early childhood science” ‘planting and observing’ activity from the pre-service early childhood teacher’s curriculum and the ‘Jindo purification rite’.