Today, we live in a flood of information and face an educational reality in which despite the quantitative expansion of knowledge, it does not develop into true knowledge that leads to individual reflection and practice. This problem is similar to the...
Today, we live in a flood of information and face an educational reality in which despite the quantitative expansion of knowledge, it does not develop into true knowledge that leads to individual reflection and practice. This problem is similar to the limitation of the late Joseon Dynasty's pedagogical academic climate, which ignored reality by only focusing on character interpretation and memorization. This study aims to reveal how knowledge is formed as true 'knowledge' through the process of experience, reflection, and practice by analyzing the internalization process of knowing shown by real scholar Yeonam Park Ji-won (1737–1805) in the late Joseon Dynasty through the 『Yeolha diary』. 『Yeolha diary』 is not just an inquiry book, but a learning diary that records the process of growing knowledge through contact with the outside world and encompasses three stages: stimulation through experience, criticism through reflection, and concrete change through practice. This study reconstructed this journey of knowing Yeonam into a pedagogical concept called 'internalization of knowledge'. In terms of experience, encounters with external civilizations stimulated changes in perception, and in the stage of reflection, he objectified himself and Joseon and renewed his thinking. In the stage of practice, the study was embodied as a real reform through writing and activities as a view of the people. In other words, the study of Yeonam shows a process in which knowledge is not simply injected from the outside, but is internalized through individual experiences and social interactions, leading to practice.
Therefore, the internalization of Yeonam Park Ji-won's knowledge goes beyond the simple ideological and historical meaning and suggests the direction in which education should go today. This suggests that it is the task of true education to cultivate a subjective human being who thinks, reflects, and practices knowing in life, not learners who stay as consumers of information. This study aims to re-examine the educational significance of practical knowledge and present the possibility of practical knowledge in modern educational philosophy by analyzing Park Ji-won's knowledge internalization process shown in 『Yeolha diary』.