This study, as a part of the 'learner centric literary education', aims to suggest the impact of inclusion of urban poetry into the educational textbook of modern poetry through the designing and applying its principles and methods of learning and tea...
This study, as a part of the 'learner centric literary education', aims to suggest the impact of inclusion of urban poetry into the educational textbook of modern poetry through the designing and applying its principles and methods of learning and teaching. Urban poetry is defined as those that depict the city life as a realm reflecting the life and the consciousness of the industrial capitalistic society, while at the same time speaking of its emotion. Thus, urban poetry is considered to be more suitable for the mentality and the everyday life experience of those learners who now mostly reside in the cities (or urbanized space). Hence, learners are more likely to actively and independently participate in the reception and creation of the literature, which will make them stand naturally in the center of the literature education.
To abstract the elements of learning and teaching of urban poetry, this study has examined the characteristics of the genre focusing on the dailiness and non-dailiness. The dailiness of the urban poetry, as the mutually shared point between the materialized contents and the experience of the learner, is the element that triggers the sympathy of the learner towards the text. This study has reviewed such in the aspect of 'poet, persona, dailiness of the character'; 'dailiness of the linguistic expression', and finally the 'formalization of general city space'. On the other hand, non-dailiness of the urban poetry is the element that creates distance between the poetry and the learner by leading the latter to recognize the normal everyday to be unfamiliar. Such element has been examined in this study as 'hiding and revealing of the named and function'; method such as 'reification‘; 'juxtaposition', and finally 'irony'.
Furthermore, based upon the elements of teaching and education abstracted from the dailiness and non-dailiness of the urban poetry, this study formulates the principle and method of teaching and education of urban poetry. First of all, the teaching and educational principles of urban poetry is an open, cyclical theory that begins from everyday life to experiencing the non-dailiness of the text, and finally to the reperception of the everyday life. To specifically materialize the such, the reception of teaching and education of urban poetry is designed into a several phases of 'reproduction of experiential space'; 'cognition of the textual space'; 'comparison of the experiential space and textural space', and finally the 'expansion of the cognition of everyday life space' of the learners. Such escapes the existing education of modern poetry, which was stagnant in the mere passive understanding of the textual meaning by the learners, through restarting from the learners and returning to the learners and therefore securing the sovereignty of the learners towards the text. Likewise, the teaching and the education of the creation of urban poetry is built in the phase of 'reproduction of the experiential space'; 'literary formalization of experiential space'; 'writing', and finally to the 'reperception of the everyday life space' by the learner.
Based upon the principles and the methods of learning and teaching, formulated upon such design, this study has structured an actual applicable classroom model and lesson plan. An experiment utilizing such principles and methods was conducted for two classes, with 283 first-year high school students, where in the result presented that 86.71% of learners were very positive about the urban poetry. In short, majority of the students reported that studying urban poetry was more interesting than the existing educational text of modern poetry.
The reception and the creative education of urban poetry suggested through such process allows not only the reperception of the everyday life of the learner but also the growth of the examinatory critical embellishments. Moreover, the model of creative writing education that begins from the everyday experience decreases the burden of creation for the learners, and is also great in its contribution to the 'conventionalization of the literature' which places the dailiness and the creation on the same line. Such elements are ultimately expected to contribute to the independent and sovereign reception and creation of literature.