Cultural Meaning and Educational Implications of Kyubanggasa : Centering on Whajeonga
Baek Sun-cheol
대구대학교
Korea Business Review 14No. pp.185-210 (2002)
Abstract
This study was prompted by the necessity that women's literature should be justly appreciated and considered in a current curriculum. Whajeonga that is Kyubanggasa as an alternative text was selected and the cultural meaning that the cognition for the reality and the aspect of existence of the text connotated was grasped. Also, its educational implications were investigated. Argument was presented in the following statements. Whajeonga is a text formed by the inter-village or intra- village people who have the same or different family name in a flower-frying culture. Its cultural meaning included the following: First, the function for pleasure and for communication, second, the space of expressing a variety of women's desires, and third, the formation of a sense of solidarity and solidification of the cognition for the reality through enlightenment of consciousness. The educational implications of Whajeonga run as follows: First, the value of literature for language education might be understood through the aspect of the enjoyment of Whajeonga. Second, it should be noted that literature is the product of a sound communal culture. Third, it should be noted that all of the villagers have trained cultural knowledge as well as have experienced the enlightenment of consciousness through the collective enjoyment of literature text. Particularly, combination of play(life) with literature and the aspect of women's independent self-expression presented in Whajeonga provided the direction at which ‘everyday life literature’ aims. Why I placed special emphasis on a cultural approach to Whajeonga in this paper is that the educational values on Whajeonga should be put in the heart of the matter.
Keywords
여성문학규방가사화전가화전놀이문중촌락연대여성 문화.
