다문화사회 속의 인권

Abstract

This article briefly introduces the multicultural society and human rights issues that I have been teaching since 2001, when I began teaching multicultural coexistence education and human rights education at Japanese universities. And I will also focus on multicultural society through an examination of human rights cases in Korea and Japan. I discuss the challenges within both countries. In addition to globalization, multicultural societies are inevitable realities in the movement of people across borders. These should be accompanied by a new form of human rights education which not only broadens multiculturalism but also develops view of a positive more energetic society through understanding social culture, multiculturalism and the recognition of diversity. Effective human rights education should be developed in order for all members of society to have a sense of human rights. In this way dynamic energy creation may be achieved through interchange and fusion of diverse cultures. Above all, individual human rights should not be violated in order to avoid conflicts and confusion caused by diversity. A multi-cultural symbiosis society in which individual human rights are guaranteed will be desirable and will make it possible to live together. This article examines the necessity of human rights education in such a multicultural society, it focuses on the human rights issues in Japan, which is aimed at becoming a multicultural society, and especially considers the human rights situation and education of Koreans and Korean Japanese in Japan.