4세 유아들의 그림책에 대한 반응 고찰 : 그림책 <옛날 스님들은 어떻게 살았을까>를 대상으로 = 4 year old children's reactions about a picture book "How did the Buddhist-monks live in the old days?"

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Many young people, nowadays, are not interested in Buddhist life styles, or many Christians have some inappropriate prejudice about Buddhist cultural heritages. Young parents seldom recognize and try to introduce Korean traditional culture including Buddhist heritage to their children. It's a very big problem to lose precious spiritual roots of Korean cultural characteristics. So, this paper tries to examine young children's experiences of Korean traditional culture related to Buddhism.
The purpose of this paper is to find out what 4 year old children think about Buddhist life styles expressed in a picture book, "How did the Buddhist-monks live in the old days?" The picture book, with very beautiful pictures and poetic words, shows how the monks thought, practiced, and lived as Buddhists. The picture book was shown and read to 16 4-year-old children of a kindergarten attached to D university and the children were asked some questions related to its content and meanings.
According to the result, all children could feel and understand the meaning of compassion that the monks had consideration for all the creatures and practiced the good for all beings. They understood why the monks, in the picture book, practiced compassion with various ways and methods, and expressed their own thoughts and ways for saving other lives. Some children who had experiences about Buddhism on TV, video, or visiting temples in mountains, no matter whether their parents were Buddhists or not, had known Buddha, monks, temples, etc. And they tried to explain what they have known and experienced with their families. In contrast, a few children who had never experienced Buddhism or related cultural activities, they had no Buddhist concepts, no interests in that kind of parts. The results showed that it's important whether they had chance to experience the traditional culture or not.
These results will contribute to rediscover the value of Korean traditional Buddhist cultures and to recognize the beautiful and pro-ecological Buddhist life styles in post-modern society and recent wellbeing moods. Above all, those will show how desirable it is to introduce Buddhism to future generations and to share it with them.