고전문학의 지속가능성과 고전문학 교육 = Classical Literature Sustainability and Classical Literature Education

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this paper is to investigate desired characteristics and potentials of classical literature in teaching the classics, and what the researchers need to study and implement to make this happen within the future circumstances of classical literature. For this, the future circumstances of classical literature were examined in this paper centered on key words such as ‘competency-based curriculum’, ‘multicultural society’, ‘unification’, ‘teaching of Korean as a foreign language’, ‘world literature’. The result showed that competency-based curriculum and multicultural society are shaking its canonical status whereas, from the aspects of unification and world literature, the role of classical literature is still in being demanded as the national canon. With growth of teaching Korean as a foreign language, it seems as though the importance of classical literature is weakening but the educational need for classical literature which establishes the identity of modern Korean is on the rise. In the midst of such contradicting demands, moving towards ‘search for multiple identity’ through classical literature, emphasizing ‘contemporary characteristics’ of classical literature, ‘receiving support from non-formal education’ etc. were recommended as ways to accomplish sustainability of classical literature. However, since classical literature itself possesses duality as the national canon, it is not easy to define the potentials of the classical literature in the complex future society. In order to resolve this, it is necessary to conduct a study on the relationship between multicultural literacy and classical literature which are the core competencies of future society.