The purpose of this study is to look into the shape of changes with the criteria of the object of education, the content of education and the method of education in the stream of the times by classifying them into an education program for public and a...
The purpose of this study is to look into the shape of changes with the criteria of the object of education, the content of education and the method of education in the stream of the times by classifying them into an education program for public and an education program for specialists. I would like to look into the process of the historical change of the education program for adults with 13 National Museum as the center in this paper. This year is 100th anniversary of opening of the Korean Museum. It's believed to be a necessary work that we have to look into the history of education program for adults by the museum, as the study on the education for adults by the museum so far was not sufficient and had been focused on the seeking the present status and the method of development in the present reality of the education program by the museum, even though the educational program for adults shared an important position.
The education program for adults, which is originated from the education program for teachers in 1949, is operating the diversified education programs by migrating their object to the employees of the museum. The education program for adults by the Museum, which has originated from the education program for specialists including teachers, shows the trend to migrate its object to the public gradually. The education program, which has started with an intention to increase the knowledge and to extend the recognition about the cultural properties and an exhibit by enforcing the professional expertise to the teachers and employees of the job related to the museum, focuses on the programs for the public, by changing the museum into the place for the enjoyment of leisure living and the discovery of one's ego so that the public can recognize the space of museum as a cultural space as time goes on. In the case of education program for public, it leads to the freely selective participation by eliminating the restriction of participation and opening the diversified programs, from the programs classified for the old men and women. Also, it's a remarkable character that a training course for the future specialists is being arranged gradually, though it's not for the current employees.
The contents of the education program for adults by Museum is restricted to the contents which is related directly to the museum to reinforce the professional expertise and transmit the understanding and the historical/cultural knowledge to the teachers or employees of jobs related to the museum. Later, an education program was introduced for learning the traditional handcraft which is less relative, as soon as the programs are widened for the public. It's a change for the public to recognize and enjoy the museum as a complex space for leisure culture, not only for the space of the exhibition.
At the beginning, the method of education was around the lecture for the massive public. A lecture around the history of art or archeology classified in cultural properties and subject. However, as time goes on, such a method began to be shown, and the educational method that was introduced first of all was am exploration on historic sites. Later, the experience was strengthened and the actual practice education was begun. It could be seen to be changed from the former education course around the lecture to the actual practice and experience, as diversified practice education course are introduced recently. In addition, even in the case of lecture, we can see the change to try the discussion between the transmitter and the consumer in the horizontal relation by providing the time for question and answer for the small scale of public, rather than an unilateral lecture for the large scale of public