『조선왕조실록(朝鮮王朝實錄)』에 나타난 전통육아의 의미 고찰 = A Study on the Meaning of Traditional Child Rearing in the 『Annals of the Choson Dynasty』

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study was to examine the meaning of traditional child rearing in the Annals of the Choson Dynasty. It's meant to make a literature analysis to serve the purpose, and the original text of this book was gathered from the website of the Compilation Committee of National History, which was translated into Korean. The collected text was interpreted based on 16 different books: "Naehoon," "Daedaerye," "Dongmongsunseup," "Dongmongsuji," "Dongeuibogam," "Sasojeol," "Sambongjip," "Seonghakjipyo," "Sonyegyeong," "Sohak," "Sugumong," "Singitong," "Injeong," "Jajagirye," "Taegyosingi," and "Toigyejeon." And earlier studies and publications were additionally consulted to interpret the book. The findings of the study were as follows:
Chapter II offered an overview of child rearing in the Choson Kingdom, and described the objects and methods of it. It's found that in that era, child rearing was done at home in an informal way. When the education of that age was analyzed, child rearing seemed to have been under the sustained influence of contemporary educational philosophy about the happy mean, benevolence, self-restraint, measuring square, faithfulness, generosity and reconciliation of heaven and man, which were all considered important in daily routine life at that time.
Chapter III put in order traditional child-rearing practices written in the Annals of the Choson Dynasty in accordance with the developmental stages of infants and preschoolers and based on Yoo An-jin(1990)'s definition of development and Yook Soo-hwa(2008)'s definition of development. The former defined infancy and early childhood in a broad sense, and the latter used the educational practices of the educational institution for the royal family of the Choson Kingdom as reference materials when she made a definition of development. In this study, three categories of child rearing were selected based on the age division of the Annals of the Choson Dynasty, which were respectively named an antenatal training period(before birth), a health-care period(from birth to before weaning) and a cultural period(from after weaning to before school entrance). And it's found that for the royal family of the Choson kingdom, child rearing didn't refer to simple cramming early childhood education but was based on philosophy of the happy mean.
Chapter Ⅳ looked into the traditional child-rearing practices discussed in the previous chapter in terms of view of child, view of parents and view of education to explore the implications of traditional child rearing for modern society. A wide variety of archives and earlier studies were analyzed to do that, and this effort made it possible to find out misconceptions in today's society and to put in order traditional child- rearing practices more carefully. The key point of traditional child rearing was to patiently let children grow in nature without scolding or forcing them to do more than what they could do, and to look at what parents should be like from a cosmic perspective, not merely from a humanistic standpoint. As to education, it was stressed in that age that practical, authentic education should be provided in due order from well-rounded perspectives.
Given the above-mentioned findings of the study, there are some suggestions: First, looking into traditional child rearing makes it possible to seek universal, long-term methods of child rearing. Second, children should be raised to have a smooth communication with others so that they could grow up in a stable manner. Third, it is possible to find a clue for sound child rearing and successful early childhood education in traditional child rearing, which has long been forgotten.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 서 론 1
• 1. 연구의 필요성 및 목적 1
• 2. 연구 내용 6
• 3. 용어의 정의 6
• 4. 연구 방법 7
• Ⅱ. 조선시대 육아의 이해 11
• 1. 조선시대 육아의 시대적 개요 11
• 2. 조선시대 육아의 목적 및 내용 17
• 3. 조선시대 육아의 방법 28
• Ⅲ. 조선왕조실록에 나타난 전통육아의 실제 32
• 1. 태교기(台敎期, 출생 전) 33
• 2. 보양기(保養期, 출생~이유 전) 50
• 3. 교양기(敎養期, 이유 후~입학 전) 62
• Ⅳ. 조선왕조실록에 나타난 전통육아의 의미 73
• 1. 아동관 73
• 2. 부모관 79
• 3. 교육관 87
• Ⅴ. 요약 및 논의 94
• 1. 요약 94
• 2. 논의 및 제언 99
• 참고문헌 103
• 부 록 114
• Abstract 120