‘생활양식’의 고찰을 통한 실과교육 목적의 재개념화

Reconceptualization about the Goal of the Practical Arts Education by examination of ‘the Way of Life’ in Postmodern Era

Practical Art Education has focused on the way of real life but the meaning of real life has interpreted by external approaches. By contextual approach, people’s life conditions in postmodern era seemed to be influenced by consumption and technology. Consumption oriented society has forced people to pursue the symbolic exchange value as well as the distinction from others. Technocratic society, which emphasis on the value of efficiency and mass production, has promoted consumption oriented society in ecology destructive ways. Also it conceals the labor efforts in production and changes traditional way of life, which is full of uniqueness and originality, based on the future orientation without any doubts. Practical Arts Education must concern about the recovery of ordinary life which orient to recover of the identity in the way of life, of the relationships with others, resources, and nature, and of the creativity from consumption-technocratic society. For the recovery, Practical Arts Education should fulfill some conditions such as child’s interest in his/her life, decision-making ability, a balance between deficits and progress, and ecological perspective on mankind as well as cultural. With these conditions the curriculum should contain two conceptual changes. First conception change is from the ‘labor of individual’ to the ‘work of family’. Second is from the ‘external’ concept to the ‘contextual’ one. Thus, Practical Arts Education should be the life education focusing on ‘family work’ and has aims that a child is able to balance and to maintain personal life as well as family life due to development of basic skill/ability in life and that a child enables to recover cultural and ecological way of life.