Every literature teacher often faces the difficulty of explaining what literature education should be. When literature is used for educational purposes, it should be viewed as "literature for life" rather than literature itself. Therefore literature e...
Every literature teacher often faces the difficulty of explaining what literature education should be. When literature is used for educational purposes, it should be viewed as "literature for life" rather than literature itself. Therefore literature education must not revolve around raw knowledge, but rather, enlighten students with the joy and internal value of literature.
Phrases such as "place for healing souls" (found in Thebe‘s library) and "medicine box for souls" (located in Gall''''''''s medieval library in Switzerland) provide a foundation that literature does indeed having healing power.
When literature education is focused on growth and healing, it can open a window into the future and strengthen the mutual relationship between the external and internal life. This is why I studied "literature education for growth and healing." The purpose of this educational activity is not solving maladaptive problems through professional counseling techniques with healing, but promote students'''''''' integral comprehension and acceptance of life.
ChapterⅠdescribes the aim, the subject of study and methodology. In Chapter Ⅱ, I studied the theoretical background, which emphasized the behavioristic, psychoanalytic, and narrative aspect of the theory.
In Chapter Ⅲ, I read about various reading and writing activities for growth and healing. Although communication and mutual response with themselves (or their surroundings) are important for producing a harmonious and integral life, reading activity is just as significant because of the effect that is generated when communication interacts with mutual response with others, themselves or even with one''''''''s suffering in life. Depending on the viewpoint, life can be interpreted in many ways. From an educational point of view, exciting stories about life can be developed through writing activity.
Reading activity for ''''''''communication with others'''''''' is about considering the communication with family members and older generations. The activity for ''''''''communication with themselves'''''''' is planned to reverse their own life by finding their own hidden resources, which is free from a negative and defeated attitude.
For ''''''''communication with suffering of life'''''''', students read materials that let them think about divorce, a common social problem in the 21st century and the inevitable death. In addition, three kinds of writings are used, which are as follows: (1) writing for the purpose of thinking about what change would be in the students'''''''' lives if we rewrite well-known stories from a different standpoint, (2) making stories, and (3) mimicking poems.
Chapter Ⅳ provides a summary of this study.
This study is based on the recognition that literature has the power to heal the damage. In school, teachers and students should try to integrate life with the positive power of literature through the medium of literature works. People say that knowledge is power, however, knowledge itself is not power. When it is applicable, then it can be real power. It is necessary to apply knowledge to our life. When students pull together their thoughts on life, have affirmative opinions and pursue a harmonious life, the effects of reading and writing will be maximized.