In modern industrialized society, women's desire for good use of spare time and delf-development goes on growing, and their social engagement and employment demand is increasing, due to the reduction of their domestic labors because of nucleariztion o...
In modern industrialized society, women's desire for good use of spare time and delf-development goes on growing, and their social engagement and employment demand is increasing, due to the reduction of their domestic labors because of nucleariztion of family. As necessity for self-development through education grows, the importance of social education under the name of lifelong education emerges as the time goes by. We can cite cultural centers of department stores as social education institutes for women reflecting this tendency.
Cultural centers of department stores were founded to obtain steady customers, to increase business profit, and to provide local residents with spaces for cultural activities. They not only helped departments in their obtaining steady customers, fostered women's dilettante life and good use of leisure, but also motivated women's social participation. Modern society requires activities of experts with various professional skills.
Growing number of women want to participate in social activities linking their professional skills attained through handicraft education, one of cultural center courses, with economical activities. However, status of traditional handicraft course is very poor among total handicraft courses provided by cultural centers.
This study aims at finding out problems of stagnant situation of traditional handicraft through research on reality of handicraft education program of cultural centers as social education institutes, and suggesting schemes for improvement and promotion of traditional handicraft education.
Korean handicraft culture industry can be classified into two, traditional handicraft and modern one. The former tends to keep conventional techniques and styles, while the latter tries diverse manufacturing method focused on practical use, adopting modern sense. Correspondingly, in education, the former stresses acquisition of skills through field experience, while the latter provides class for both theory and practice with various materials. So much, traditional and modern handicraft carry lots of difference, and, accordingly, are in discord.
According to the research on the reality of cultural center operation, traditional handicraft education programs lack expertise and diversity, duplicates courses, and suffers shortage of lectures. So, it is urgent to develop and vitalize traditional handicraft education programs by narrowing gap between tradition and modernity, and by imbuing both traditional fragrance and modern sense at the same time.
If we are going to develop Korean handicraft, we should popularize it and create continuous demand, suited to the globalized world. It is important, too, to develop Korean traditional cultural goods and imprint superiority of them, through the promotion of Korean culture towards world market.
It is our main future task to graft and harmonize traditional and modern handicraft.
I hope public interest and insight about education on traditional culture of cultural centers is improved through this thesis. I also hope many women could develop their talent and succeed in finding jobs thanks to vitalizations of traditional handicraft education. I expect cultural centers of department stores would popularize traditional handicraft culture, by growing to be the institute of lifelong education, by producing lots of traditional craftsmen, and by developing traditional handicraft goods.