가정교육에서의 부모의 역할

• 영문명: Family Education and Parents' Role
• 발행기관: 서강대학교 생명문화연구소
• 저자명: 김인자(In Za Kim)
• 간행물 정보: 『생명연구』제2집, 409~437쪽, 전체 29쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 1994.11.10

영문 초록

Since we are having in 1994 The International Year of the Family, as enacted by the United Nations, it is very meaningful and significant for professionals to re-examine the MEANING OF OUR LIVES and our responsibility to help for their personal growth so as to build a better world. As Fr. Chung(정의채)said. at the sixth symposium of The Research Institute for the Life and Culture, life is an unconditional gift from God and from human beings. It is a gift to the most valuable creatures, who live but once in this world, a gift that cannot be repeated under any condition, and it shows the uniqueness of human life. As Fr. Chung mentioned at the symposium, life is the product of love:all creatures exist and grow only when love also exists. Life naturally is essentially love. The word "life" implies many two-sided aspects: simplicity and complexity, absoluteness and relativity, creativity and imitativeness, wholeness and individuality, infinity and finity, softness and stiffness, resurrection and death. But in all of these aspects, life becomes meaningful only through love. Each human being must develop his/her skills of love in order to survive and help others survive in the world together. Other when love and life are integrated and interacted, can an individual's life become meaningful and a person extend his/her helping hand for other people. But, where can we learn how to love oneself and love others? Learning how to love oneself and others begins within each individual's family. We all are aware that when a child grows in loving environment. The child grows to love others and becomes a responsible person. As such, he/she also can take the responsibility to support and be supported by others in the family, in the schools, in the workplace, and in society. In other words, human beings need to learn from the nursery to tomb to achieve our ultimate goal, the healthy and peaceful life. There exists, however, a dilemma between our personal goal and our on going situation in the world. In particular, present Korean society contains numerous conflicts and problem, such as conflicts of needs, the generation gap, ill-oriented educational system, and changing values, and attitudes toward education. In this scene, it is not strange to see that we members of modern Korean society, face generational, social, and individual conflicts that have risen from the fall of old political ideologies, from the new wave of democracy, and from the conflict between individual needs and social values. In this situation, professionals, like ourselves, need to develop and improve our counseling methods to respect the individual's needs while helping people to practice their rights to be healthy members in the society. In order to deal with the many conflicts of a rapidly changing world, the United Nations proposes the slogan "Let's help each family to establish the smallest democratic society" to make various programs be practical and useful for everyone in the world. On of the general principles on which the United Nations used for the celebration of the International Year of the Family is the recognition of the family as the smallest but most essential core factor of a healthy society. What, then, can we professionals do to meet the needs and demands by way of endless competition and punishment in other to prevent further problems or simply trying to solve existing conflicts or turing only to science are not the best approaches. Rather, we must perceive the problems as opportunities for personal and mutual growth. Now is time to realize the necessity of reexamining and reevaluating the role of the function of the family. The mission and task of counselors, educators, and parents are to build democratization and peace in each family.