대학통일교육 발전을 위한 모색- 대학생들의 통일교육에 대한 인식을 바탕으로 한 고찰

Abstract

As 70th anniversary of Independence Day and 70 years after the division have passed, our society’s discussions on the unification become hot. However, teenagers and university students’ indifference to the unification is quite serious even though they should become the driving force of this process. Thus, this research paper has searched the ways about what to change and how to change in order to increase effectiveness and significance of university’s unification education, seeing through FGI (Focus Group Interview) results of university students’ thinking on the content and method, necessity, and direction of unification education. They mostly had opinions that university’s unification education is necessary for preparing the unification, because this group was relatively having high interests in social problems. For the direction, they replied that unification education should be considering the future of unification not just security education, dealing with the inter-Korean issues with a balanced view. They hoped that the contents of this education handle various realms of North Korean society and its residents in order to correctly understand them, and expected the methods should proceed under students-centered presentations and discussions, placements, and experience programs as non-school activities. Considering these facts, first, this paper argues that the establishment of unification-friendly educational environment is important to reinforce university’s unification education in future. Important things are diversifying unification-related programs of which students can participate and supportingthem with continuous interest and policy. Second, by extension of the unification education, this paper emphasized desirability of it as a liberal art program. As various liberal arts programs like the history education, peace education, multicultural education, human rights education, humanities, and leadership education, a comprehensive approach for the unification education, as a liberal art program, can have a bigger educational effect in the long term. In addition, from the perspective of lifelong education, important is continuous operation of university’s unification education. Third, this paper suggested invigoration of university’s unification education by building governance of it with civil society. By actively utilizing civil society, as a partner of university’s unification education, this education should have a role in forming a consensus about the unification, expanding awareness of unification, and extending intersection of various social members