한국 평생교육학의 학문적 성과와 학교기반 교육학에 대한 문제제기(2000-2023)

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to mark the 70th anniversary of the Korean Society of Education and to reveal what kinds of academic and theoretical contribution that the field of lifelong education has made to the overall educational sciences in general. In particular, what this study focuses on is exploring what the lifelong education theories have been constructed and how they gave impact on the dominant school-centered mainstream educational theories. Among many, this article investigates how lifelong education as theory has transformed the theoretical landscape of school-centered ontologies in pedagogy. For this purpose, this study re-classified the contents of the articles published in the Journal of Lifelong Education, which the Korean Society for Study in Lifelong Education has published over the past 20 years, and extracted the theoretical contrasts that lifelong education created in comparison with existing school-based educational theories from that flow. The results are summarized as follows. (1) In pursue of the foundational concept of lifelong education, the researches of lifelong education have continuously created alternative educational concepts, values, and learning theories that gave impacts on transforming or replacing the theories and practices of Korea’s school education system. (2) In particular, researches and theories on lifelong learning resulted in the new starting point of alternative learning theories and, at the same time, the creation of a new field of learning sciences. (3) The continuous institutionalization process in the areas of adult and higher lifelong education was a consequence of the efforts, and also it was an effective leverage of education system in post-schooling era that transforms and replaces the traditional structure of the schools and universities. (4) Lifelong education has shifted the focus of pedagogical discourse from education to learning, from which the dominant “schooled society” was gradually de-territorialized and re-territorialized towards “learning society”.