This essay is written for proposing a even more organized program and
concrete case studies mainly based on the process of introspection and cure
in both oral stories and writings. It is focused on writing about self-research
through re-writing oral narratives and introduces critical thinking on the
context of performance and the vision of narrative therapy within the writing
level of the freshmen.
Group interpreting and composition, re-contextualization by switching a
interpretive viewpoint, openness and liquidity of producing a text, application
of structure of a forum of performing oral narratives as a place for public
discussions are actively used for writing lessons by drawing the context of
the performance. On the other hand, this study leads to critical reasoning on
ambivalent effects of oral narratives which are carrying out of a function of
initiation into a society and drawing the resistance to group homogenization.
Also, having critical thinking on narrative therapy that is composed of
introspection in dominant discourses and alternative story composition is
applied to the writing class.
Subjects who have had intensive lessons about self-examination through an activity such as re-writing the story of “Agijangsu(아기장수) ”-a husband
and a wife together kill their son to be a great general saving the world
because their community regard their baby as dangerous man to destroy the
community-, are able to critically examine dominant discourses and value
orientation. After all, they have shown desire for their “differences” or their
unique values to be approved and accepted in society. The subjects recognize
that the conflict with parents or community is not caused by their own
problems but is the matter of inevitable process, so they rather interpret what
the inherent problems are within the conflict. Also, they discover their
unconscious loss or verify their will of self-respect and self-esteem within
themselves.