Pub Date : 2023-02-28DOI: 10.46392/kjge.2023.17.1.11
Gi-Bong Kim, J. Nam, H. Kim, Byong Chul Park
In recent years, general education has grown more sharply than ever in the number of dedicated organizations and professors in universities. The “Korea Association of General Education” has grown rapidly into an organization with more than 2,000 members, and its academic achievement has grown so rapidly that the IF (Impact Factor) of the Korean Journal of General Education ranked 1st in the major category of ‘Complex Studies’ and ranked 7th among all academic journals.The National Research Foundation of Korea's is used as a coordinate for establishing academic status in Korea and as a criterion for distributing shares of the national R&D budget for research support projects. The organizational size of the Korea Association of General Education and the academic level of its journal definitely deserves a higher ranking than the ‘Medium Classification’ in the , which is hierarchically divided into “Large Classification, Medium Classification, Small Classification and Detail Classification.” However, in reality, it is located in ‘Detail Classification’, which is the lowest rank under the name of ‘Basic and General Education’. This classification system does not sufficiently reflect the academic characteristics of general education. As a result, it is difficult to receive an appropriate evaluation in terms of academic research activities and research support. Over the past decade, the Korean Association for General Education, the National Council for General Education, and the Korea National Institute for General Education have continuously made many attempts to correct such contradictions.This study summarized the past efforts into a history of Korean general education and sought where and how we should relocate general education in the in order to live up to the spirit of the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution. In the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution, which calls for fostering convergence talents, a renaissance of general education designed for a fusion of the academic fields, is expected, instead of one that promotes specialization. If the placement of general education in the is a matter falls under the knowledge category, the subsequent classification method is determined by how, in our times, we can conceptualize general education. In order to study the category and concept of general education, it is necessary to establish a new academic field called ‘General Studies’.This study proposes to set the academic status of ‘General Studies’ in the in the following three ways. The first option is to take the spirit of the 4th Industrial Revolution and upgrade it to the ‘Large Classification’. The second option is to position it as a division of v
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Pub Date : 2023-02-28DOI: 10.46392/kjge.2023.17.1.115
Mingyu Seo
This study aims to reconsider the norm of ‘humanitas’ that the liberal education pursues from the perspective of 21st century post-humanism. For the outcome of this reconsideration, I suggest an alternative view point about what we need regarding ‘humanitas’ at this time. The concept of ‘humanitas’ and its value to the world was coined and founded during the ancient Greek and Roman period, and after the Medieval period, which saw the rise of Christianity, it was revitalized with the movement of the Renaissance. However, I insist that humans entered a barbaric and disastrous stage at this time instead of one that led to an increase in humanitas. This is made all the more clear when we examine human history and the system that has led us into an ecological crisis after the advent of the 20th century. The 21st century of post-humanism is the era in which humans live with the new existences that never been experienced. The era of post-humanism needs to undergo a paradigm shift from anthropocentrism to ontocentrism. When we do not share the crucial values promulgated by ‘humanitas’ with our newly evolved non-anthropic existences, we are doomed to continue walk down a barbaric and disastrous path.
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