교정교육에 있어서 통합형 및 한국형 인성교육의 효과에 관한 연구

Abstract

Corrective education in correctional facilities aims to reform and rehabilitate prisoners. In particular, corrective education in combination with the humanities and character education may provide prisoners with a chance to introspect and reflect on themselves, changing their characters and values. This plays an important role in reinforcing corrections administration and establishing a social safety net. This study aims to seek the ways to develop and practice a Korean character education program and an integrated character education program and ultimately to systematize and reinforce corrective education. First of all, the correlation of corrective education with the humanities and the concept of character are discussed. The background of the emerging trends in character education is also investigated in the context of relevant theories, education, and society. This study suggests the concepts and virtues of character education and provides the necessary rationale for establishing a direction of corrective education by analyzing the actual conditions and circumstances of current character education. As an example of corrective education, this study took the humanities character education programs of Seoul Juvenile Training School and Yeoju Somang Correctional Institution. After the introduction of the humanities character education programs, the characters and values of the inmates of the juvenile training schools had been significantly changed and this program had been effective to assist them in adjusting to the society after their release. Although objective figure has yet to be determined in Somang Correctional Institution, we could confirm that its humanities character education program obviously has an important influence on the changes in human nature and values of prisoners. To systematize and reinforce corrective education, the character education in combination with the humanities and counseling is needed and, moreover, the Korean character education model needs to be developed to resolve the problems of Westernization in character education. And as its practical methods, this study suggested life-close adhesion character education, character education activating local communities and the middle zone, development of the customized character education program, and nurturing citizen character education expert etc.