‘통일감수성’의 교육적 가능성으로서의 2000년대 이후 한국 아동·청소년 문학 연구

A Study on the Educational Possibility of Unification Sensitivity in the Korean Childrean's Literature

The purpose of this study is to attempt two studies related to unification education. The first is to reflect on the existing concept of ‘unification sensitivity’, and the second is to rethink unification sensitivity in terms of ethics and publicness based on this reflection. The three goals of ‘unification sensitivity’ are as follows. First, we feel compassion by experiencing the suffering of others. Second, develop a sense of identification that the pain of others can become your pain. Lastly, this sense is expanded to include social and public ethical sensibilities. Based on these findings, this paper provided the possibility of ‘unification sensitivity’ education targeting Korean children's literature since 2000s that featured North Korean immigrants. The possibilities provided are as follows: 1. Through Jo Gyeong-suk's novels, we indirectly experience the lives of North Korean immigrants and recognize their suffering. 2. Through Park Gyeong-hee's novels, we re-recognize the emotions of compassion that have been thought to be different between North Korean immigrants and South Korean children, and compare and contrast ‘my pain’ and ‘their pain’ along the same line. 3. In Jeon Seong-hee’s novels, ‘unification sensitivity’, which has been limited to the personal level(in terms of identification with compassion), is expanded to public sensitivity. Expanding the unification sensitivity mentioned in this paper to ethical sensitivity and the public domain can contribute to diversifying not only unification education but also unification discourse.