오우크쇼트의 행위이론에 비추어 본 교육목적의 의미

"Aims in Education" on a Perspective of Oakeshott"s Theory of Conduct

  Education is a purposive human activity. It is decicively important in educational practice to clarify the purpose or intentional aspects of education. But educators do not pay much attention on this problem. And academic discussions on this aspect are far beyond as are supposed to be needed. As a result, there are some confusions in using those intentional terms like "purpose", "aim", "goal", "objective" etc. The purpose of this essay is to examine the status of intention in human conduct and to clarify the difference and relation between the term "educational aim" and "educational objective". It also purports to encourage discussions on aims of education. In order to do this, Michael Oakeshott"s general theory of human conduct was examined and its implications on clarifying the term "educational aim" and "educational objectives" were discussed. And some criticism on the behavioral approach to "educational objectives" were made also.