21 세기 한문교육의 정상화 과제 = The Task of normalization of the Education of Korean Chinese Characters and Literatures in the 21th century

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This thesis treats of the task to normalize the education of Korean Chinese characters and to justify it in the information-oriented society. The summary is as follows. At the first part, I explained efforts during the last year(2000. 7-2001. 6) to normalize the education of Korean Chinese characters and the final accomplishment of The Educational Society of Korean in Classical Chinese. At the second part, I discussed about the justness of the education of Korean Chinese characters and literature which is the common letters in the East Asia and international letters in the age of Asia-Pacific. At the third part, I considerated the changes of the education of Korean Chinese characters in an country and the present condition of the education of classical Chinese characters in North Korea and Japan. At the fourth part, I presented the plan to normalize the education of Korean Chinese characters and literature in the 21th century. ① We should enactment the standard of Korean Chinese grammar in school and make it to be reflected in the 8th course of middle and high school education. ② The Ministry of Education & Human Resources Development should amendment the 7th course of middle and high school education rapidly which have mass-produced illiterate people in Korean Chinese characters and restore Korean Chinese to common elementary curriculum for people(compulsory course). ③ The education of Korean Chinese characters and literature should be performed harmonizing with the information-oriented generation. Teachers should study and develop new methods of teaching, for example, using various educational multi-media. ④ The Province & Metrofolitan Office of Education should cancel the project to cultivate Korean Chinese teachers not specialty in Korean Chinese lesson by the training of Korean Chinese characters and literature for several terms which brought about unreliability in the education of Korean Chinese characters & literature. ⑤ Although the adjustment of fundamental Korean Chinese characters for education is important too, also institutional contrivance which could make the education of it realized should be prepared. And in Academic Aptitude Test(AAT) for college entrance, problems in Korean Chinese characters & literature should be set question. After all, We should not neglect the education of Korean Chinese characters which is the one and only common letters of one thousand and six hundreds millions people in Asian culture and the international letters in the age of Asia-Pacific. We mast let the fact that North Korea and Japan enforcement the education of classic Chinese characters more substantially than us be a good lesson. The Ministry of Education & Human Resources Development should amendment the 7th course of middle and high school education which have a lot of problems, and execute the education of Korean Chinese characters from the elementary school, and make the Korean Chinese lesson common elementary curriculum for people(compulsory course) at the middle and high school. Also in Academic Aptitude Test(AAT) for college entrance, problems in Korean Chinese characters & literature should be set question. The norminalization of the education of Korean Chinese characters & composition is the way to assimilate people upward saving them from downward homogeneity in the side of intellectual life. The norminalization of the education of Korean Chinese characters & composition is the strategy for survival of Korean people in the age of limitless intellectual competition, the way to raise the competitive power of nation, one of the ways not to drop out of Chinese letters culture consist of one thousand and six hundreds millions people.