인성교육편 주제 발표 : “한국평생교육의 새로운 길잡이 쉐마교육” = Shema Education as a Great Task of Korean Lifelong Education

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper describes 1) brief history of Korean lifelong education as a science called andragogy and an action for national development as well and present some its great tasks for solving nationwide social problems, and 2) proposes shema education as an idea and model of Korean lifelong education in the future.. For lifelong education the authors`` works and experiences were mainly used for sources of information and for Shema education, about thirty books written by Dr. Yong Soo Hyun and his papers concerning about his learning experiences were reflected in this paper. Before the term ``lifelong education`` to be introduced popularly in the 1970s by UNESCO and in the early 1980s in South Korea, similar ideas and different terms of education such as adult education, social education, learning institutes, nonformal education, out-of-school education, evening school, popular education, and the like had been used and practiced for general people``s enlightenment in the wake of modernization(1910-1945). During the Japanese colonial regime, Korean literacy and independent education for the people were openly or surreptitiously undertaken. After the liberation in 1945 from Japanese rule the US. Military Government tried to adopt American educational system building Adult Education Bureau at the Ministry of Education and Cooperative Agricultural Extension system patterned after the land-grant colleges system in the USA. When the new democratic Government of the Republic of (South)Korea was launched in 1948, it could not stress and afford adult education. However, after 1953 cease fire of the Korean war, some UN organizations helped South Korea to strengthen nationwide adult literacy education and to institutionalize national agricultural extension system which initiated 4H Club and agricultural and rural life improvement activities. In 1966 the Adult Education Resertch Group as the first branch of the Korean Society for the Study of Education was organized and had kept on development to become the Korean Society for Lifelong Education. And in 1976 the Korean Association of Adult Education was set up in KyeMyung University consisted of a number of adult education scholars and practitioners and sustained activity to become the Korean Federation for Lifelong Education at present. It is early 1980s when South Korea officially used the term ``lifelong education`` covering adult and nonformal education and other similar terms by inserting a new terminology in the article of the new constitution such as "the Government should promote lifelong education". However, based on this article a Social Education Law and Bylaws were legitimatedin 1982. Nevertheless, the concept of social education law was not exactly covers the core idea of life long education. No public support had been virtually made to promote lifelong education until 1999 when the Social Educarion Act was changed into Life Long Eduction Act. the early 2000s. Instead, lots of efforts were put in the meantime by a number of civil organizations like the KAAE and others.. For on thing, in order to prepare action for International Literacy Year*ILY 1990), the KAAE organized a series of action such conducting research, holding various meetings to enlighten the public how important the literacy education and education for all in sloxe cooperation of UNESCO and overseas professional organizations like ASPBAE and ICAE. Late as it is early 2000s, fortunately, the civilized Government of the Republic of Korea realized the importance of lifelong and literacy education, and started to invest considerable amount of budget for such education. Most of adult education related terminologies were replaced by lifelong education and after 2007 Lifelong Education Law amendment, most of local administrations institutionalized such lifelong education systems reflected in such a way putting up lifelong education department or center. The National Institute of Lifelong Education(NILE) launched in early 2008 has been playing a pivotal role in advancing lifelong education system in ROK. But super-speedy development of the ROK mainly pattering after the western developed countries which oriented very much individualistic and competitive western technologies and way of life, brought about many social problems endangered to collapse her beautiful family system and collective traditional cultures. In order to solve these problems, the goals, philosophies and methodological strategies of ``Shema education`` was suggested as an alternative model for the future Korean life long education. Shema education has been proved as the most crucial element for the jewish people to keep their excellent homogeneous culture and family ties in spite of millennial diaspora suffering history.