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A Study on the Geography Educational Meaning and Approach of Children’s Geopolitics

어린이 지정학의 지리교육적 의미와 접근 방안 모색

한동균

Dongkyun Han

서울교육대학교 사회과교육과 교수
Professor, Seoul National University of Education
30 November 2024. pp. 13~29
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Abstract
This study attempted to introduce the recently emerged children’s geopolitics and to explore the meaning and approach of geography education of children’s geopolitics. Children’s geopolitics, influenced by critical and feminist geopolitics, challenges traditional adult-centered geopolitics, and studies how children reconstruct the geopolitical concept as a political subject centered on the living world. Children are no longer regarded as immature or geopolitical victims, and are recognized as critical and creative geopolitical thinkers who resist and reproduce the dominant geopolitical narrative as citizens with subjectivity. Children’s geopolitics has the following meanings for elementary geography education. First, it is possible to promote the possibility of becoming a geopolitical thinker through understanding of children. Second, based on the importance of basic geographical knowledge, it is possible to understand the context of geographical knowledge, and to flexibly approach and expand. Third, it is possible to improve students’ critical literacy and problem-solving ability. Fourth, it is possible to realize daily geography education linked to timely and real life. Fifth, it is possible to seek an integrated geography centered approach. As for the geography educational approach of children’s geopolitics, a plan and method of using geopolitical issues as the content of elementary geography education can be considered. As a specific teaching and learning method, play, games, simulations, and role plays can be used to reflect the characteristics of elementary school students. In particular, simulations and role plays such as simulated Model UNPO provide students with an opportunity to learn complex geopolitics through experience in schools, which are geopolitical places, and can provide researchers with valuable insights on how students interpret and participate in geopolitics. This study only introduces children’s geopolitics, but it is expected that the follow-up research will lead to specific research on children’s geopolitics and application to classroom classes.
Keywords
Critical Geopolitics
Children’s Geopolitics
Elementary Geography Education
Model UNPO
본 연구는 최근 등장한 어린이 지정학을 소개하고, 어린이 지정학의 지리교육적 의미와 접근 방안을 모색하고자 하였다. 어린이 지정학은 비판적 지정학과 페미니즘 지정학의 영향을 받아 전통적인 성인 중심의 지정학에 도전하며, 어린이가 생활세계를 중심으로 정치적 주체로서 지정학적 개념을 어떻게 재구성하는지를 연구이다. 어린이는 더 이상 미성숙하거나 지정학적 희생자로 간주되지 않으며, 주체성을 가진 시민으로서 지배적인 지정학적 서사에 저항하고 이를 재생산하는 비판적이고 창의적인 지정학적 사상가로 인식된다. 어린이 지정학은 다음과 같은 초등 지리교육적 의미를 가진다. 첫째, 어린이에 대한 이해를 통해 지정학 사상가로서의 가능성을 도모할 수 있다. 둘째, 기초 지리 지식의 중요성에 기반하여 지리적 지식의 맥락적 이해와 유연한 접근 및 확장이 가능하다. 셋째, 학생의 비판적 리터러시와 문제해결능력을 향상시킬 수 있다. 넷째, 시의성 있고 실생활과 연계된 일상의 지리교육을 실현할 수 있다. 다섯째, 지리 중심의 통합적 접근 방안을 모색할 수 있다. 어린이 지정학의 지리교육적 접근 방안으로는 초등 지리교육의 내용으로서 지정학적 이슈를 활용하는 방안과 방법으로서 지정학을 소재로 활용하는 방안을 고려할 수 있다. 구체적인 교수학습 방안으로는 초등학생의 특성을 반영하여 놀이, 게임, 시뮬레이션, 역할극 등을 활용할 수 있다. 특히, 모의 UNPO와 같은 시뮬레이션과 역할극은 학생들이 지정학적 장소인 학교에서 복잡한 지정학을 체험을 통해 배울 수 있는 기회를 제공하며, 연구자에게는 학생들이 지정학을 어떻게 해석하고 참여하는지에 대한 귀중한 통찰력을 제공할 수 있다. 본 연구는 어린이 지정학을 소개하는 데 그치고 있으나, 후속 연구를 통해 어린이 지정학에 대한 구체적인 연구와 교실 수업으로의 적용이 이루어지기를 기대한다.
키워드
비판적 지정학
어린이 지정학
초등지리교육
모의 UNPO
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