벽 허물기 시대, 로컬 기반 교양교육연구소의 역할과 전망 ―이론적 모색을 중심으로―

Abstract

This study focuses on breaking down walls and examines what values and systems liberal arts education at universities in non-metropolitan areas should have in a situation where innovative strategies are needed to expand students’ major options or strengthen linkages between industry and universities. It started with concerns. The role of the Liberal Education Research Institute is more important than ever to apply the leading or standard model presented by the Korea Institute for Liberal Arts and Basic Education, including the Regional Innovation Centered University Support System (RISE) and the Glocal University Project, to individual universities. The university’s liberal arts education research center must reflect local characteristics beyond universality based on modern paradigms or dichotomous thinking and build a liberal education system by communicating with residents, including learners and local residents. Accordingly, the Institute for Liberal Arts Education must put into practice the performative declaration of tearing down, not walls, and carry out its role as a multifaceted platform that plays the role of translation based on Hermetic cognition. Continuing the act of shaking and exposing the system of knowledge and modern thinking is drawing local wayfaring through wandering and wandering. Therefore, we need to build a message of coexistence value and shared growth locally, which will serve as a foundation for going beyond the universal structure of academics. As seen in the case of Pai Chai University’s Jusigyeong Liberal Education Research Institute, the liberal arts education research institute must act as a compass that can move forward on a growing intellectual journey by moving away from the desire for the center and following specific local places.