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A Study on the Multicultural Education Teaching methods of Sino-Korean Classics Education

DongJae Lee 1

1공주대학교

Candidate

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Multicultural society means a society where minorities’ diverse native cultures are not absorbed into the dominant culture but preserve their originality and coexist with other cultures. Multicultural education is education for respecting myself and being considerate of others, and is human right education for resisting wrong prejudices and fixed ideas and making peaceful decisions. Thus, it is closely related to classical Chinese education. The ground for multicultural education in classical Chinese education can be found in the educational goals of the classical Chinese curriculum. Until now, however, classical Chinese education has been focused on traditional culture, aiming at the preservation of national homogeneity and traditional culture and, for this reason, it has paid little attention to other races and cultures although one of its educational goals was the understanding of other cultures. Accordingly, multicultural education through classical Chinese education should pay attention to three points as follows. First, the contents of classical Chinese education should be based on philosophies respecting human beings like ‘In (virtue),’ and focus on the realization of democratic ideals through tolerance education like ‘Chungseo (faithfulness and forgiveness).’ Second, the contents of education should be expanded by including successful Korean immigrants like Kim Chung‐seon in Korean history who moved to a foreign country and achieved success or adapted themselves to foreign culture successfully. Third, the contents of the classical Chinese curriculum are mainly about human rights and equality, but some of them deal with gender equality and suggest the exclusive superiority of Korean people as a racially homogeneous nation. Such contents should be excluded. Furthermore, multicultural education through the current classical Chinese curriculum should promote the understanding of the diversity and heterogeneity of emigrants’ cultures and the coexistence of such culture, targeting native Koreans rather than emigrants.

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