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Discussion on Desirable 'Hyo' Education at Elementary School

  • Journal of Korean Hyo Studies
  • 2012, (16), pp.69-97
  • Publisher : The Korean Hyo Studies Association
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities

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1전북성경적효연구원

Candidate

ABSTRACT

The thoughts of 'Hyo' comes from our own ideology of 'humanitarism', so called, 'Hong-ik In-gan', which is based on our ancestors' practice of worshipping and showing respects for Heaven and the former ascendants, which has dominated the national spirit as the practice of ethics. Therefore carrying out 'Hyo' education as its principle on the basis of 'the benevolence for parents and filial duty for children' should not be neglected by our nation, schools, and the society in oder to build better moral and ethical education. Hence, our most urgent task is to find out how we can internalize the thought of proper 'Hyo' into education, and make young people live their desirable lives, paying respects for their parents and the elderly people. Particularly, some of the most important tasks of all are to reconstruct what is considered to be the old legacy of 'hyo' into the contemporary 'hyo' education, and to adopt the modern home ethics and establish further national values of education. For that reason, elementary schools shouldn't identify 'hyo' education as only one aspect of ethical virtue, but rather should apply some kind of educational methods that can let them embrace the thought of 'hyo', and it will be eventually internalized and actualized when it is taught gradually and consistently in systematic manners in the long term. Therefore in order to implement and actualize 'hyo' education at school, it requires not only teachers' passion and interests, but also their efforts and capabilities related to the operation of the educational programs to reconstruct and retranslate what modern concept of 'hyo' is to meet the level at which it may be appropriate to the course of study carried out on the basis of the given level of national standardized educational programs. In other words, school programs should yield inevitable worth virtues of 'hyo', and teach them systematically through maximizing the use of social networks, and the cooperations of homes and communities. To settle 'hyo' education effectively, our schools, homes, and communities work together to strengthen their links, so that students can become aware of the importance of 'hyo'. Furthermore the students' mental and physical development take place during their elementary school period, and it's the time when children's self-identity is starting to form, and so it's crucially important to promote them to build rational value judgement. Overall, 'hyo' education should be initiated through the individual's spontaneity and the social networks of homes, schools, and communities. The fundamental concept of modern 'hyo' ideology should be worked as the bridge of connecting tradition, present, and the future to foster better education. The essay hereby presents the needs of 'hyo' education in the elementary schools shown through excellence cases of 'hyo' education, 'hyo' related encyclopedia, and research papers, and is now searching for ways to adopt 'hyo' education effectively in the elementary schools.

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