사람됨 교육 관점에서 통합교과교육에 대한 비판적 논의

Abstract

This paper aims to identify the essence of integrated subject education and to critically discuss integrated subject education from the viewpoint of Saramdaum Education. As the ideals of education in Korea suggest, education in Korea obviously prioritizes ‘Saramdaum’. Accordingly, integrated subject education also aims to – partially - achieve a ‘quality-oriented’ improvement of children’s Saramdaum. However, given the essence of integrated subject education, there is obviously a gap between integrated subject education and Saramdaum Education; they have different horizons when it comes to the contexts of the East and the West. Thus, it would be hard to expect the thorough development and management of integrated subject education to help children build Saramdaum. The underlying idea of integrated subject education is to integrate subject matters or subjects into various types and teach them. After all, this means that they are not different from the discourses concerned with ‘knowledge’ or ‘intelligence’. On the contrary, Saramdaum Education involves discourses related to the ‘heart’ and ‘mind’. Thus, recognition of discourse-related differences between integrated subject education and Saramdaum Education should be prioritized. And if the purposes of the former are not confined to the development of rationality or acquisition and accumulation of knowledge, it is necessary to explore various ways for the two discourses to have a harmonious relationship (Contraria Sunt Complementa).