교수요목기의 민족문화 형성과 발전 - 국정중등 국어교과서에 수록된 작품을 중심으로 -

Abstract

This study is the paper which elucidated the real picture of the national culture formation & development in early Korean language education on the basis of empirical materials of logical writing for persuasion, descriptive writing, and travel essay included in the state-designated secondary Korean language textbook during the course of study. In Korea, which was liberated from the Japanese Empire, a nation-building was emphasized through literacy education with focus on reading and writing as a newly-independent country. The Korean language education in making a new nation served to transfer people to the nation by reproducing people in the network of ‘Language-Culture-Nation.’ In such circumstance of the time, restoration and supply of our language, which was lost during the period of Japanese Occupation, was a top priority. Inspiring the language nationalism into the people for securing legitimacy by scrapping the knowledge & culture embedded in the vestiges of Japanese imperialism, and forming national cultures at the same time were the very mission demanded by the times for securing our identity. In the process of muddled, undetermined social changes, the meaning and importance of a certain writing are understood and interpreted in a specific discourse framework of the day. A travel essay recording a new experience, knowledge, impressions while traveling was included in the Korean language textbook as a means of inspiring the national cultural consciousness into learners by getting them to observe our cultural heritage through explicit instruction. Our cultural heritage observed through the eyes of intellectuals was the representation of Korean ideas and cultures via disuse of Japanese imperialistic culture, independent acceptance of foreign ideas and material culture introduced during the US military government period, and succession to traditions of national culture.