This thesis has the purpose of studying Ethics education methodology for improvement humanity education at elementary school in Ethics class. Responding to the formed sympathy of the necessity of humanity education, in the seventh Ethics curriculum, h...
This thesis has the purpose of studying Ethics education methodology for improvement humanity education at elementary school in Ethics class. Responding to the formed sympathy of the necessity of humanity education, in the seventh Ethics curriculum, humanity education was emphasized as one of important issues. It is intended to raise up integrated human who has developed all aspects of right temper and cognitive, definitive, and behavioral aspects of morality in harmony through humanity education. Also, in the seventh Ethics education curriculum, in more specified ways the moral practice through experience education was emphasized. In response to this trend, first it is to establish the concept of character for the improvement of humanity education in this study. This is started from the belief that the concept of humanity education which is abstract and comprehensive without any agreement on it at the moment should be established first then humanity education will be performed well. Emphasizing the establishment of the concept, character and the necessity of humanity education, the component factors for elementary school students' character cultivation were represented. In this thesis, love, respect, care, and service were adopted as the component factors for character cultivation. That is, it means to raise students who have desirable character by practicing services based on the minds of love, respect, and care. In addition, reflective care ethic which supplements care ethic by Noddings and reflective thoughts in experience learning theory was suggested as a philosophic ground of humanity education. Reflective care ethic promotes us to practice caring behaviors continuously in the relation of credibility and intimacy through reflecting on structured practice experiences. Also, 'practice' and 'reflection' were stressed more strongly. Humanity education should be accomplished systematically through continuous and systematical practices in human relationship. In this side, the caring relation between reliability and intimacy and the reflective care Ethics emphasizing 'practice' and 'reflection' are expected to arrange desirable grounds for humanity education. Also, since reflective care Ethic includes integrated cognitive, definitive, and behavioral areas, it will provide proper grounds to service learning which especially emphasizes the habit of reflection and introspection. Next, for humanity education activation, the contents of humanity education currently executed in elementary schools mainly were examined and through the issues of humanity education currently executed in elementary schools, the concrete ways to advance in for humanity education improvement were explored.
The reality of our education is flowing toward competitive direction which is focused on preparing for entrance exams and better scores even at elementary schools which requires more variety of experiences and practices for desirable character cultivation. Based on these issues, in this study service learning were suggested as an education method for humanity education improvement for elementary school students. Service learning is an activity to bring meaningful changes to local areas, schools, and human and providing students with positive changes and developments by linking leaning with service learning experienced in actual situations of local societies. Also, service learning has a big difference in the existence of the chance to meditate and reflect in the course of carrying it out from service. The importance of service learning is more and more highlighted in modern society. It is because students can be raised up as desirable human who the humanity education pursues by developing all cognitive, behavioral, and definitive areas through service learning.
Especially, it is expected to be more effective and useful to elementary school students who have immature morality by providing the educational chance through experiences. Therefore, in this thesis, it is suggested that service learning should be applied actively to Ethics education which should perform the core role of humanity education, at the same time, home, school, and community should practice humanity education cooperatively.