과학 소설과 융합 교육

Abstract

This paper suggests literature education using science fiction as a possible convergent education in the field of literary education. For this purpose, I examined the nature of convergent education and the function of science fiction, and suggested the directions and examples of using science fiction based on the analysis of using science fiction in current curriculum. Convergence means an attempt to reorganize the humanities into knowledge that can be used as science and technology by the demands of science and technology. But the convergence in humanities is an attempt to read science and technology not from its autonomy but from social relevance, and this must be extended to the convergence in literary education. In order to do that, it needs a discourse that exists between science and technology and other discourses and mediates them, and it can be called a sort of detour. Science fiction can role as detour in literature education. Science fiction reflects the future by describing the social conditions that science and technology can bring to the future. However, science and technology, which is the subject of science fiction, is the current science and technology and trends rather than that of the future. In the present curriculum, the convergent education of science and literature is hardly carried out. In science education, literature is used only to activate the schema not the literary view. Literature education only shows the scientific thinking that made possible the literary works, but does not reflect on it. From the viewpoint of constructivist philosophy of science, science fiction is a hybrid of science and literature, and has the original function of making the detour of science and technology through virtual experiment and simulation. In this regard, convergent education in literary education should translate science and technology into literature and reflect on it.