공동체주의 교육론에 대한 비판적 고찰

Abstract

The purpose of this study is critically analyse the communitarianism and P.H Hirst's later education theory. Some scholars such as MacIntyre, Sandal, Taylor argued that the individual liberalist have been overemphasizing a person's inner-side and a introspection. The overemphasizing make person to have a disengaged self, a modern self, and then the disengaged self weaken community down. The community give person the meaning of life. The breakdown of the community make person to lose the meaning of the life and morality, and to have a confused and unethical life. We must recover the community with the virtue and Sittenlichkeit. P.H. Hirst was a representative liberal educator in the 1970' and 1980'. He suggested 'the education as initiation to the knowledge'. But he was influenced by MacIntyre and Taylor, and then he diverted his old view of education to the new one. He as a communitarian suggested 'the education as a initiation to the practice'. So there are social problems came from a losing of the community, the communitarianism and it's education theory is worth of an attention. But they have some problems as follows; Firs, the communitarianism and it's education theory do not have a blueprint of the community. Second, they have a possibility to emphasis and justify a totally collective society. Third, So, they are oriented to get back the old society such as a rural community, they are not appropriate to the information society. Forth, So, they are biased to the western traditions, they are not appropriate to the information society. Fifth, they have some methodological problem such as a oversimplicity. In spite that the liberalist estimated the community for a good live, the communitarian argued that the liberalist entirely ignored the community.