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A Critical Review of Dosan Ahn Changho’s Conviction and Practice for Social Education
Journal of Lifelong Learning Society
Abbr :
JLLS
2015, 11(3), pp.221-244
Publisher : Institute of Distance Education
Research Area : Education
2015, 11(3), pp.221-244
Publisher : Institute of Distance Education
Research Area : Education
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The purpose of this paper was to review critically social education in embryo-modern Korea and find implications for present lifelong education. A historical literatures were reviewed for Dosan Ahn Changho. Dosan’s activities and convictions for social educations were followings; first, he joined or founded a lot of organizations. Second, he devoted himself to boost self-consciousness, reform civic life, become economic independent, and build knowledge. Third, Dosan pursued not also changing society through increasing national power to make civilized nation and realize liberal democracy, but insisting nation’s independence and altruistic behaviour. To increase national power, he emphasized and built alliance through personality exercise and unity train. Dosan’s convictions and practices for national independence and social reform would imply practical and theoretical logics of educational value and meaning, method for contemporary Korean social education.
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