학습자의 사회학

Abstract

This study raises the issue that the practice of classifying learners into categories in the existing sociology of education no longer meets the needs of the times. This is because it cannot reflect the demands of our times that emphasize the ability of free self-creation latent in individuals. Education that suits human life that shares interest and meaning of life based on individual uniqueness, requires enhancing the ability to associate with others rather than the traditional educational emphasis on socialization. In order to newly empower individuals who have been separated from abstract society as society grows and becomes more complex, this study examines how a particular but influential conception of society in the West and Korea has lost the individual as a concrete and real entity to a large group such as a nation state or nation. The process of inventing the modern individual paired with the evolution of such a modern society is examined through Western history, and how it has rolled out in Korean society is also is examined. It also includes the process of individualization that is emerging in the most recent Korean society. Lastly, this study discuss why the learner of our time must be a qualitative individual that Simmel distinguished from a quantitative individual. In addition, through Simmel's ‘Law of The Individual,’ we discuss how it can be the categorical imperative of education in our time to allow individual uniqueness and self-based specificity to create a purely individualized personal life. In conclusion, this study argues that the sociology of learners proposed by this study should be a new educational sociology that can contribute to efforts to transform the current school into a place where students and teachers grow together.