‘콩쥐팥쥐’류 동화의 문화 맥락 탐구학습과 다문화 이해 교육

Abstract

Educational value of traditional fairy tale like 'Kongjwi and Patjwi' type was studied in the knowledge that development of teaching material is important. Traditional fairy tale is the old story reflecting children's childlike innocence and containing ethnic characteristics. Education using traditional fairy tales should not give students the superiority or the inferiority complex of their own country. It should give students open point of view through evoking sympathy and understanding about culture of different countries. If children are guided to recognize the differences and similarities of different countries, multicultural education can be realized. Traditional fairy tale plays the major role in passing down the style of living, traditional values, and religions from mouth to mouth, forming social and cultural consensus among country members, and preserving and reinventing cultural values. Traditional fairy tale is one of the excellent teaching material, because it has the function of transmitting the values and style of living of the day to children by showing them the lives of ordinary citizen. ‘Kongjwi and Patjwi', ‘Mulgogi Gasi', and ‘Cinderella' were selected as the three countries' traditional fairy tales having similar story structure. Each country's cultural difference and similarity were appreciated by analyzing the three stories. An example of listening and writing education was suggested using a Chinese fairy tale, ‘Seophan' as the educational method for improving multicultural literacy. Through this study education for enlarging cultural schema was suggested as a educational content for Korean education.