철학교육에 대한 제도적 접근

Abstract

There are two main areas in the education of philosophy. One is internal, on the contents of the education of philosophy, and the other is external, systematic, on the curriculum of middle school and high school, national academic aptitude test for university admission, general education course in the university, and national policies on study, etc. In this article, I will treat the latter one to motivate systematic change from the authority of Korean philosophers which was always only an object of many arguments. One suggestion that I want to make an offer is that we need to change our knowledge centered high school system into more various and career oriented. In detail, I suggest that we change our curriculum system into more liberal based. We need to set up a new area of the curriculum called 'humanities' and we need to include history and philosophy in addition to literatures and Korean language in it. Subjects such as 'philosophy', 'ethics', and 'logic' could be a good example of the contents of philosophy. I also think we need to conceptualize and organize high school curriculum into more empirical, practical and investigative at first, and then philosophy can get its role without much effort in this curriculum. Also, we need to consider setting up a department of philosophy in the teachers' college to vitalize philosophy education in the elementary, middle, and high school. Finally, in the university, we need to teach philosophy to the students who is studying Korean language and literature, and societies. Nowadays, public indifference in philosophy is increasing, and this drift is stronger in Korea. This is due to Neoliberalism, no governmental policy to humanities, externally, and maladjusted scholars and philosophers, internally. Shallow capitalism and pragmatism which only believe and respect superficial phenomena dominate this world now. Government tries to support only for the academic fields which can show superficial results, and presses scholars to write many theses competitively even in humanities which needs relatively long time to research, which keeps them from studying in depth. Final reason for indifference for humanities I found in this study is that we tend to adhere to narrow specialization. People turn away their faces from present scholars who consider themselves as experts. To rise from the dead, we need to collapse the walls of specialization, and do more comprehensive work. To do this, I dare to suggest that we should reorganize colleges of humanities and social studies into colleges of region on a region basis. To seek solutions to overcome indifference to philosophy, graduated students need to get jobs related to it. So we need to teach them pure philosophy and applied philosophy as well. At the same time, we are supposed to try to find a way for the students to do works in various cultural areas and in journalism as professionals. We need to make philosophy popular and generate many work places in that processes. Fundamentally, we need to concentrate on making the public and every day philosophical, not on bringing foreign philosophy in. Synthetically, in addition to setting aside internal stability for development of many contents, Korean philosophers need to try to change systems and put much effort to improve educational environment.