The primary goal of the 7th Curriculum Amendment of the educational process is transforming students from Korean citizenships to Global citizenships equipped with self-enforced and self-initiated minds and self-respected and self-identified attitudes. Profound understanding of their own traditional cultures and civilizations could be the critical factors to meet the global citizenship standards.
Students could have a chance to enlarge their understanding of own traditional cultures through taking Calligraphy. Based on understanding their own traditional cultures, they can be capable to adopt and comprehend Global cultures. Calligraphy stresses the harmony, the balance, and the temperance of the energy between the body and the mind so it could help the students to be more balanced personal. Modern Calligraphy has, however, just depended on traditional training methodologies and it doesn‘t properly inflect rapidly changing and developing society and culture.
In traditional Calligraphy methodology, the students just carefully look at the writing patterns in the textbooks and repeatedly practice those patterns. After those stages, they learn and memorize meaning of the characters and words. The students, therefore, easily get tired of that very simple and repeated traditional Calligraphy. Even the teachers, who dont have professional Calligraphy knowledge, dont like to have Calligraphy. Those insufficiencies of the training methodologies and the lack of professionals have been obstacles to reform and grow Calligraphy Education.
Ive analyzed text books and instruction manuals for Calligraphy in the 7th Curriculum Amendment and found out some differences between the 7th and 6th. I suggest complements for the 8th Curriculum Amendment.
I have reviewed Instruction manuals for Calligraphy and I finalized below.
First, there should be many sorts of reference and impression materials on the Calligraphy text books. As modern calligraphy has been changed and developed, the modern calligraphy education needs to reflect the cultures, changed very fast way. We need to import some aspects from different kinds of arts such as paintings, designs, plastic arts, and industrial arts and add those new kinds of aspects on only penmanship, most established and traditional Calligraphy methodology. The students, therefore, could have chance to appreciate various kinds of penmanship than only traditional one.
Second, there should be various kinds of materials for instructor on Instructor manuals. The students could learn not only outcomes of calligraphy activity but processes of that. It is valuable experience for the students to watch processes of the activities. Most instructors and teachers in school, however, don‘t have ability to suggest some basic process or practical process to their students so the students can be instructed with audio-video materials and various calligraphy materials and tools on web sites and well designed instruction manuals. Throughout those processes, they can be experienced basic and practical process on calligraphy exercises.
The arts inflect the face of their generations. The Calligraphy should be comprised of form of current societies and cultures. Weve benefited penmanship and mental training from traditional Calligraphy. It is very important to have those benefits from Calligraphy. As our societies and cultures have been changed, the students tastes and claims have been changed more drastic way than those. The students could have benefits from the Calligraphy both Understanding the traditional culture and expressing themselves. As a character formative art, the calligraphy can be motivation for the students.