식민지 근대화 논쟁과 역사교육의 방안

Abstract

This study discussed plans for history education, reviewing the issue of consciousness involved in the controversy over colonial modernization. How can cognition matters be taught? To answer this question, the investigator examined historiography involved in land survey projects, rice crop augmentation plan, and colonial industrialization. After reviewing the logic of objectivity and analyzing the process of historical understanding among the students, the investigator also proposed plans for history education in the aspects of lectures. As a result, a process of controversy over exploitation and development turned out to have continued since the 1980s. History is relative, but students can obtain objective historical understanding. Especially, perspective and explanatory power played an important role in the cognition. Objective historical understanding takes a concrete form of scheme in the process of comparing diverse perspectives and explanatory powers. Thus plans for history education can be discussed in lecture situations where cognition communication takes place. Lectures, of course, should be given in an epistemological paradigm. The problem is that most lectures in the field are given in an ontological paradigm. A colony of exploitation, for instance, becomes an ontological fact and is offered as such. Of course, there is nothing wrong with the Korean history community’s position on exploitation. This study merely emphasizes that colony should be offered in an epistemological paradigm. In conclusion, the content of a lecture should be cognition itself. Such content allows the students to access the issue of perspective and explanatory power. Meanwhile, the method of lecture should be cognition itself, too. The students should be encouraged to perceive problems, detect perspectives, compare explanatory powers, and objectify problems for themselves. The educational plans proposed in the study will help the students develop the best cognition regarding the issues of land survey projects, rice crop augmentation plan, and colonial industrialization.