조선시대 女師의 호칭과 그 敎育的 意味

Abstract

A word for the best praise of Joseon women, Yeosa(女師), has beencommonly used as a word praising women, with Yeosa(女士) orYeojunggunja(女中君子). But, there was a position of Yeosa(女師) in courtand it's assumed that personally excellent people were selected and theyeducated royal children. In addition, it seems that there were rare cases theyeducated children, grandchildren or children's grandchildren in noble families. However, among the records remained in male-centered society, there is justa glimpse, but the actuality cannot be known in detail. This thesis examinedhow women who were called by Yeosa(女師) and educated grandchildrendirectly played educational roles through the records which are insignificantlyremained. As Sohak shows, the first standards of selecting Yeosa(女師) wereexcellent personality and virtue. Therefore, Yeosa(女師) should set her life asa model of educatees before the education. So, they do everything by veryfair standard, so hold on to very strict life sometimes. If Yeosa(女師) incharge of education is not respected by educatees, education cannot be doneeffectively. Therefore, this researcher confirmed that Yeosa(女師) was peopleestablishing their values firmly and practical people setting an model forothers. And, they had high level of intellectual ability and werewell-informed women. Actually, if examining educational characteristics of women who have a title of Yeosa(女師), most of them should play roles of strict father insteadof their husband, so they couldn't help being strict for education. Thus, theyshould treat everything fairly and impartially so as to be specially strict. So,they scold educatees often for results of education and this method wassometimes contributed for education very effectively. And, Yeosa(女師) achieved self-fulfillment through the accomplishment oftheir children, but they devoted themselves by letting books out of theirhands rarely during the whole life and they remained a model of practice forthemselves.