융합교육의 조건으로서 교사의 권위

The Teacher's Authority from the Point of Fusion

The paper tackles the educational point of fusion to confirm the authority of teachers. It has also examined the concept and types of‘fusion’, which can throw light on the paradigm of knowledge-based society. For seeking a solution to the so-called ‘risk of teacher’s authority’, the distinction between conceptions of fusion has been made so that we can establish the ‘tacit’ dimension of it, which has originated from Michael Polanyi. The bridge should be the authority that teacher actually exercise. However, we have seen that it is insufficient to draw a distinction between formal and substantive authorities. Thus the fusion based education, as the paper asserts, requires another conception such as ‘tentative authority’ tentatively. Under this conception, we can conclude that the fusion based education fulfills three prerequisites for the successful education, which are dubbed as logical order, openness and passion. There must exist the significant domain that the cognitive and the affective ones fused each other, which Richard Peters has named ‘compassion.’