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The Korean Association of Regional Geographers (한국지역지리학회)
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Social Nature and Its Implications for Geography and Environment Education

사회적 자연의 지리환경교육적 함의

  • Cho, Chul-Ki (Department of Geography Education, Teachers College, Kyungpook National University)
  • 조철기 (경북대학교 사범대학 지리교육과)
  • Received : 2016.09.01
  • Accepted : 2016.11.25
  • Published : 2016.11.30
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Abstract

This paper suggests to bring the idea of social construction of nature or social nature discussed in social science including geography to geographical and environmental education for breaking traditional divide of people(or society) and nature. And this paper analyzed relationship between people and nature, meaning of environment and the concepts of social nature represented in the geography curriculum and textbook of England, Australia and Korea. Recently in terms of focusing disciplines or education on integration or convergence, introduction of social nature in teaching and learning geography and environment has an important implication. With rapid growth of capitalism, nature is constructed socially by the political, economical, social and cultural practice. Thus geography education reduces the distance between human geography and physical geography and needs to focus on exploring not just the relationship between people and nature but social construction of nature. Another implication of the introduction of social nature in teaching and learning geography and environment is that students can develop the relational sensitivity about the relationship people and nature or people and place.

이 연구는 지리환경교육에서 있어서 전통적인 인간(또는 사회)과 자연의 이분법을 타파하기 위한 방법으로 최근 지리학을 비롯한 사회과학에서 논의되고 있는 자연의 사회적 구성, 즉 사회적 자연 개념의 수용을 주장한다. 이를 위해 영국과 오스트레일리아 그리고 우리나라 지리 교육과정 및 교과서 분석을 통해 인간과 자연과의 관계, 환경의 의미, 사회적 자연 개념의 수용 정도를 파악하였다. 최근 학문과 교육의 키워드가 통합 및 융합에 초점을 두고 있다는 점에서, 사회적 자연은 지리환경교육에도 꽤 설득력을 지닐 수 있다. 실제로 자본주의가 고도화되면서 자연은 인간의 정치, 경제, 사회, 문화적 실천에 의해 사회적으로 구성되고 있다. 따라서 지리교육은 자연과 인문이라는 영역의 간극 을 좁히면서, 단순한 인간과 자연과의 관계 탐색을 넘어 자연이 어떻게 사회적으로 구성되는지를 탐색하는데 초점을 맞출 필요가 있다. 이러한 사회적 자연이 지리환경교육적 측면에 가지는 또 하나의 의의는 학생들에게 인간과 자연, 인간과 장소의 관계에 대한 관계적 감수성을 길러 줄 수 있다.

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