중등교육에서의 생명교육

Life Education in Secondary School

Education cannot be done without relation to the situation of the age and its society. Education should make a contribution to the improvement of the age and its society for their higher level. Education also should play a role to relieve the society from a serious problem as it happened. Nowadays, modern education came to meet a task ; how we will solve the problem of environmental pollution and the tendency to make little of life as human beings' common tasks. Especially it is a pity that the education of Korea has not been giving actual attention to the problems of environment and life, because of the emphasis of entrance examination for college, and so we have to try to get over this sooner or later, Education at school is caught in intellectualism, functionalism, and standardization. So this doesn't seem to educate a view of the world for life community in order to build a peaceful future world to share with all the human race. Education in Korea doesn't have proper curriculums to be able to educate environment and life more synthetically and more systematically and, although teachers should realize the importance of education about these, they are still almost indifferent to their sense of duty about them. Most of all, it may be that there is no supporting system of administration equipped at all. From the Ministry of Education to the classroom of the school, environmental education, life education, most be treated as the most important task of modern society to be carried out through the systematic and consistent structure of administration. however, environmental education is necessary in modern education, and it must be not a simple campaign for environment but the approach to more basic problems. It is just the matter of the value for life to threaten the existence of the human beings. Education should not only make students know the essence and value of life but also have the proper view of life. Modern education, with the existence of the human beings threatened by the pollution and destruction of environment, will have to do its best to change the Microcosmic view of life into the Macrocosmic. This, as the environmental movement, the human movement and the life movement to change man, means that nature and man are the one and only creature of an organism, and that the universe is a unified body, and so we must understand it, and then put it into practice in our daily life. If only so, for what can man destroy nature and discharge a large quantities of pollutant? Education to change man, this is just the beginning of life education, and the core of education. Especially in our country, Korea, we can very often find many obstacles of education, undemocratic education systems and the evil laws of education anywhere. Therefore, we will have to improve the educational condition of anti-life like these. Now ecocide is going on. it is that cultural ecocide is being done. Cultural ecology means the diversity of culture. It depends on education with discussion. But there is no education discussion at school. With these chain reaction, cultural ecology is taken ill(A Standardized Culture), natural ecology does so(A Phenomenon of Species Reduction) and at last man and nature are passing away together. At school, life education is very urgent like this.