| Character Health of Korean University Students and Narrative Approach |
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Young Don Yoon, Soonok Choi |
| 한국 대학생의 인성건강과 내러티브 접근 |
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윤영돈, 최순옥 |
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| Abstract |
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Our concern in this project begins with a question how Korean university students can maintain a healthy character in spite of the endless competitive spirit described by the phrase of the winner-takes-all in the order of free market under neo-liberalism since IMF.
First, we examine the meaning of character and its constitutive clue. In a general way, it is said that character consists of morality, sociality and emotion. But that doesn’t do. The meaning of character needs to include concepts such as creativity, singularity or individuality. Those factors of character previously stated, most of all, imagination can synthesize. This study proposes to enlarge the concept of imagination from Kant’s first critique to his third critique which argues mental powers constituting genius. Genius can be looked upon as a kind of productive faculty to re-create man and world. The very genius shines, among others, in a poet who can reconstruct nature & world by means of imagination. Reinterpreting our lives & world, and writing our own stories, we are, so called, a kind of authors with genius’ and poet’s eye. In addition, this study extends the concept of imagination to narrative as a synthesizing principle building character.
Narrative approach has an affinity with socio-constructivism, and it’s a kind of humanities therapy of health. Both professors and students are co-authors who can rewrite their own life-stories through language with therapeutic effective. |
| Key Words:
character, imagination, narrative approach, author, socio-constructivism, humanities therapy |
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