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‘Socratic Discourse’ for Character Education and Democratic Citizenship Education in Korea

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2019, (31), pp.88~116
  • DOI : 10.33639/ptc.2019..31.005
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : October 20, 2019
  • Accepted : November 29, 2019
  • Published : November 30, 2019

Chang-Ho Jeong 1

1고려대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This paper aims to investigate some implications of ‘Socratic discourse’ to character education and democratic civic education in Korea. Socratic discourse is a method or program for a philosophical and political education in Germany, which has been developed by Leonard Nelson and his students. To this end, it reconstructs firstly the whole of ‘Socratic discourse’ by reviewing the chronological development process from L. Nelson and G. Heckmann to recent followers of them. Based on this, it attempts secondly to prove that ‘Socratic discourse’ could be an effective way of realizing Klafki’s ‘general education (German: Allgemeinbildung)’, which encompasses and integrates the elements of character education and democratic civic education in one concept. So the ‘Socratic discourse’ can be a corrective for the unnecessary disagreements between the both educations. It concludes that for the integrated development of character education and democratic civic education in Korea, it is necessary to pay more attention to dialogical-philosophical education program such as 'socratic discourse', and at the same time, more attention to the concept of inclusive education such as Klafki's ‘Allgemeinbildung’

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.