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Publication Date: 2019
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The "Public" Role of School Teachers in Korea: For Its Conceptual Reconstruction through Its Historical Tracing
Bhang, Jina; Kwak, Duck-Joo
Educational Philosophy and Theory, v51 n9 p924-935 2019
This paper makes a bold attempt to make sense of contemporary Koreans' common expectation of the educational role of public school teachers by tracing its historical and cultural roots to the neo-Confucian humanistic tradition of the Joseon dynasty in Korea that lasted for about 500 years until Korea began to modernize in the late nineteenth century. In this attempt, the key concepts to be explored as equivalent to the Western idea of 'liberal learning' are the Confucian ethics of 'learning for oneself' and its relation to schooling and teaching. The discussion focuses on whether and how this ethics of learning can be recovered in such a way as to accommodate the postmodern condition of our society, as the educational legacy of the humanistic tradition of East Asia that can keep the public spirit alive in (post-) modern schooling.
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Confucianism, Humanism, Ethics, Foreign Countries, Public School Teachers, Educational History, History, Western Civilization, Individual Development, Postmodernism, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: South Korea
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