평생학습 사회에서의 교육철학의 역할과 과제

Abstract

Lifelong learning society is the essential part of the whole picture of the society in 21 century. Lifelong learning society might be able to free us from the cultural traps of 21 century’s post-modern world. The notion of learning through life is hardly new. However, with the development of ‘lifelong learning society' makes it general that education should be lifelong. According to this view, lifelong education must not be regarded as a luxury for a few exceptional persons here and there, nor as a thing which concerns only a short span of early humanhood, but that lifelong education is a permanent national necessity, an inseparable aspect of citizenship, and therefore should be universal. Philosophy of education takes charges for the provision of the vitality that enables education as well as society to realize the betterment of present situation in such a way that the right of lifelong learning is increased. Indeed, without the effort of philosophy of education, we will fail to develop the concept of the individual's right of lifelong learning to the degree that every individual in our society enjoys the human dignity and the quality of life. With philosophy of education, the value of lifelong learning becomes apparent to us.