敎授要目期 중학교 ‘漢文’ 교과서 구성 체계와 내용 분석

Abstract

The 'teaching on classical Chinese' in our country is presumed to start simultaneously with the acception and utilization of 'Chinese characters' supported by the academic circle. The moment was estimated at about B.C. 300, and the fact that every remaining text and document created from the period of Three Kingdoms to Goryeo Dynasty and Joseon Dynasty is written by Chinese characters can be regarded as the circumstantial evidence. Thus it is illogical to think that the disregard of the classical Chinese would detoxify the culture of our country, and even if it is should be for the shake of recovering our country's identity and historical dignity, the investigation and analysis of the historical progress of 'classical Chinese education' can be considered a remarkable and meaningful work. Based on these research purpose and meaning, this paper showed an estimation of the 'syllabus period' which can be called the first step in the classical Chinese education. This 'syllabus period' is the point of time when the 'education' - within all difficult situations of both domestic and international politics and economy after the Liberation - exposed its transitional characters. Thus when the educational objectives and curriculum of the 'classical Chinese' subject were not yet systematically established, it was nothing but a part carelessly hidden in the educational objectives of the 'national language' subject. And both the language planning and the classical Chinese subject - based on 'the patriotism, the enlightenment, the superiority of the nation' etc - could not be guaranteed their long continuance. Even in such a difficult situation, 3 types of "Classical Chinese textbook 1, 2, 3" for middle schools were published, and it is surprising that all of them were authorized books. Hence this research can be seen as the result of some primary, though simple, investigation and analysis through a prism of various shapes of the "Classical Chinese textbook 1, 2, 3" for middle schools in the period of syllabus which can be named the starting point of the modern 'classical Chinese education'.