Rachel Carson의 ‘자연 받아쓰기’와 ‘환경문해(環境文解)’ 교육

Abstract

This paper is to survey the grafting possibility of environmental literacy education onto environmental education in the Republic of Korea’s educational institutes for ecological restoration. This will be achieved through Rachel Carson’s environmental essays such as The Sea Around Us and Preserving a Sense of Wonder which are written in poetic and lyrical words or phrases rather than in terms of natural scientific perspectives. Carson, a ‘slow writer’ of nature, is a regarded as a faithful ‘amanuensis’ of natural voice sublating a sort of parched literal style matched to that of theoretical writings. Carson's environmental education to her young nephew through her environmental literacy education is very unique in that it does not intend to teach him grandiose principles of nature in such a fashion of learning by rote, but induces him to feel the natural entities slowly for himself through the personification of nature. In view of this, in order to slow down environmental destruction or pollution, and to recover the ecological balance in Korea, above all it is necessary for youths in primary and secondary schools to be cultivated in ‘ecological literacy’ in mind, which can be fostered with so-called ‘nature dictation’ of Carson’s nature writing style by overcoming informal gigantic discourse in environmental argument.