인류세, 지속가능한 예술교육

Abstract

Over the past century, human abilities with complex cognition and creative ideas have led us to a world of unpredictable change with unprecedented econom- ic growth and prosperity, leading to the origin of innovation that transforms the way we experience life on earth with human-centered values. Our society, culture, economy, and ecological system have a structure that cannot be separated due to complicated interconnection. Based on the theory that ‘environmental problems are not just scientific but behavioral and cultural’, this study emphasises the mean- ing and importance of changing perception through an ecological perspective on the relationship between humans and ecological system and emphasises the value of preserving ethical integrity and beauty in arts education. The criticism in education of neoliberalism, which emphasises economic elit- ism, is that we must recognise the posthuman and nonhuman-centered need while we engage in science. Therefore, a new form of arts education is necessary to rethink what constitutes appropriate knowledge for the contemporary human pros- perity of uncertainty. Arts education requires to consider the ontological meaning of the Anthropocene by understanding human ethics and responsibility through changes in social and cultural values, not science, and understanding relation- ships and coexistence rather than human-centered on human behavior. Therefore, this study sees the Anthropocene as a human problem and examines it as follows with the aim of reconstructing the position and the meaning of sustainability of arts education to expand awareness of human ethical responsibility implied in the economy and social system. First, through Foucault's concept of govermental- ity, the ontological meaning of the neoliberal system Anthropocene is examined, and the location of arts education is rearranged and restructured into an expanded meaning. Second, it depicts the role of arts education and the meaning of sustain- ability in the era of uncertainty.