소로우의 생태주의적 사유와 실천의 교육적 의의 : 월든을 중심으로

Ecological Thinking and Practice of D. Thoreau and Its Educational Implications: Focused on Walden

The aim of this thesis is to research the ecological thinking and practice in Thoreau’ Walden and to suggest its meaningful implications to modern education. Conclusions are following. Firstly, researcher found that at first Thoreau was influenced by humanistic transcendentalist, Emerson, later Thoreau’s view of nature was changed anthropocentrism or biocentrism to ecocentrism during life of Walden wood. Accordingly his main concern was shifted human to nature. To him, human is one part of nature. Nature is living organism. So human never have right to govern the living things and non living things. In this sense, I think that Thoreau is pioneer of deep ecology. Secondly, researcher investigated how we can overcome educational difficulties from ecocentric view of Thoreau. In the first place, it seem to modern educational aims were to establish from not humanistic view but ecocentric view for enhancing environmental consciousness and thinking. In the later, it seems to educational contents were reconstructed by ecocentric knowledge helping symbiotic relations with living things and non living things. Lastly, it seem to new educational methods were developed to promote ecocentric mind and practice.