한국교회 교단교육의 정책과 수행 비교연구

Abstract

Accountability and roles of departments of denominational education are important in developing Christian education in Korean church. The purpose of this study is to compare the educational policies and performance of the denominational education departments of the seven denominations, including four major Presbyterian Churches(Presbyterian Kosin, Tonghap, Hapdong, and Kijang), Korean Methodist Church, Holiness church, and Baptist church, denominations that occupy 80% of Korean church in number. The researcher in this comparative study identified that the characteristics of the denominational education in Korean church were faithfulness to basic ministry such as publishing Sunday school textbooks and cultivating teachers as a main ministry, integration or separation of education and publication, and conducting various administrative work assistance based on the needs of denominations. This study analyzed the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of educational policies and performances of each denomination, using the SWOT analysis process. Based on the results of this study, the researcher presented as follows: for each denomination, intensifying professionalism of education department, reinvesting profits from publishing textbooks to education,and converting the structure of church education centered on denomination into the one centered on denominations’ association; for the academic societies of Korean Christian education, cooperation and alliance between professors and educational experts and cultivating practically capable people based on educational church fields; and for educational experts,developing professional knowledge as practitioners of church education and selecting improvements of communication and exchange with those who are responsible for policies in education departments.