가정교육 공간으로서의 아파트에 대한 교육인간학적 연구 = The Educational Anthropological Study on the Apartment as Space of Home Education

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The house is a basis of human life and a space to begin education for children at the very early age. Therefore the apartment which is a major type of dwelling place in contemporary Korea becomes an important space of education. In this context, this study tries to explore the educational meaning of the apartment from an educational anthropological perspective and its academic task for further study. For this purpose the author investigates the meaning of apartment as an existential space, the structure and features of the apartment in Korea, and Koreans` way of thinking with reference to Koreans` way of residence. There are contradictory opinions about the apartment in Korea. In spite of negative opinions about the apartment, it spreaded rapidly as a major dwelling place in Korea because it was regarded as a way to accumulate wealth or an object to invest. The structural features of Korean apartment are standardized uniformity, economic efficiency, practicality, and adoption of traditional way of residence. Koreans` ways of thinking which are projected on the structure are stress on personal value and equality, preference of anonymity, reflection of desire to show off, and the ownership of property. The apartment as a basis of human residence has an educational meaning. In order to maintain the primary function of the house, following conditions are required: securement of educational and playing space for children, practice of communal life, enhancement of family ties, effective use of space in apartment, and recovery of settlement. A human being makes a house, and the house makes the human person so when a house functions as a residential space fully, it can also function its role as a space of home education.