The Unification Education for Peaceful Unification of Korean Peninsular

Abstract

This paper aims to consider on new directions in the ‘education for the unification’ which was based on earlier ‘education about unification.’ For this research, it was utilized two important concepts related to the peaceful unification. First perspective is ‘peaceful unification’. first term, ‘peace’ used as means and ‘unification’ used as ultimate goal. Second perspective is ‘unification peace’, second term, ‘peace’ used as ultimate goal and ‘unification’ used as intermediate goal in the way to peace. And this paper examined practical possibility for unification scenarios toward peaceful unification, suggested a new direction of education ‘for’ peaceful unification on the base of these discussions. Especially, in the development of unification education at school, this study proposed a new direction such as exploration of the future that may exist rather than existence, education for unification, paradigm shift of difference and commonality, unification sensitivity.