語文敎育의 人文學的 基盤과 指向 (The Humane Basis and the Pursuit of Education of Language Culture)

서지정보

· 발행기관 : 한국어문교육연구회
· 수록지 정보 : 어문연구(語文硏究) / 40권 / 2호 / 397 ~ 417페이지
· 저자명 : 정병헌

초록

이 논문은 朴趾源의 「許生」에서 형상화된 허생의 인문학자적인 모습과 丁若鏞의 삶과 활동을 통하여 인문학 영역의 범위를 살피고, 이를 종합하는 정신을 世宗의 활동 속에서 찾고자 하였다. 책만 읽고 있는 허생은 책을 통하여 현상을 窮究하고, 이를 직접 시험해보고자 하였다. 정약용은 유배지에 도착하여 책만을 읽은 것이 아니라, 현실을 바로 볼 수 있는 소중한 기회를 맞이하였다. 그의 형인 丁若銓은 독서의 혜택을 누릴 수 없었지만, 바다에 사는 魚族의 生態를 책으로 삼았다. 세종은 자신의 의사를 전달하지 못해 힘들어하는 백성들을 위해 거센 반발을 물리치며 문자의 創製를 감행하였다. 그런 세종이었지만, 세종의 백성 속에 女性이나 常民, 賤民은 포함되지 않았다. 인문정신의 확장된 사고를 통하여 우리는 이 시대의 어문교육이 해야 할 몇 가지 문제를 검토할 수 있다. 여기에 포함할 수 있는 문제로 漢字敎育은 과거의 문제를 계승한 것이고, 외국인을 위한 한국어문학 교육은 이 시대에 擡頭된 문제라고 할 수 있다.

영어초록

Education of language culture needs to be established upon cultural basis. It is indispensable to highlight the fact that language culture is originally based on humanities. This research seeks to observe the range of humanities through the scholastic characteristics of Huh-Saeng in “Huh-Saeng” of Park Ji-won, and the life and activities of Chung Yak- yong. Finally, this paper tries to capture the spirit and the era that contain the sphere of humanities by analyzing the activities of King Sejong.
Huh-Saeng, who immerses himself in books, can be seen as a humanities scholar of the time. He investigates the logic of the universe through books, which include past experiences and culture. The purpose of his reading was to explore social phenomena through books and to experiment them in real life. On the one hand, he could be interpreted as the evil merchant that pursues personal profits by taking advantage of economic loopholes in Chosun society. However, his gains were made so that he could examine whether social changes could be made possible by money. Also, it is reminded in the story that such solution can never become perfect. Social transformation is not something that a certain group can achieve through making efforts.
Chung Yak-Yong, who arrived in the place of exile, benefited from freedom to read as much as he pleased. He used this precious opportunity to not only read books, but also to evaluate the reality objectively. His elder brother, Chung Yak-jeon, did not benefit from abundant reading, but instead learned from fish life in the ocean. Humanities do not ask for the reality to approach them, but instead they reach the reality.
King Sejong sympathized with the pain of the people who could not communicate their ideas properly. Thus he ventured to create Han-gul (Korean written language) against resistance from the noble class, so that he could communicate with the people. He was capable of having such creativity and motivation, perhaps because he did not wish to be content with existing benefits. However, his 'people' did not include women, the common people, and the lowest class. This is the reason that “Hong- gil-dong-jeon,” which intended to alleviate inequalities chose the era of King Sejong as its historical background.
Through extension of humanities spirit, we can review some issues of today's education of language culture. Education of Chinese characters, and education of Korean literature for foreigners can be included in such issues. The education of Chinese characters derives from past issues, and the education of Korean literature for foreigners is an issue of the future. The education of Chinese characters is necessary; it can not only enhance vocabulary capacity of the Korean language, but can also provide op- portunities to make use of Chinese characters to give names to pouring new products of civilization.

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