| Humanities Curriculum in General Education: Clement School as an Example |
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Ji-Won Myung |
| 교양교육을 위한 클레멘트 스쿨 교육과정 구성 |
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명지원 |
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| Abstract |
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The purpose of this study is to create the necessity of humanities as the method of general education and to develop the Clemente School management plan and curriculum as an educational method of humanities.
Questions on nature of education regarding the human image that college education produces are at the center of debates these days. This leads to the reform and reorganization of general education which aims at raising “a genuine human”. However, in the reality of over 80% of students entering college in today s society, college education is no longer only the experience of ivory tower, but it also has to give students vocational guidance and consider the positions of corporations. As a result, general education courses are filled with the ones easy for employment. And the deterioration of the general education curriculum that contains the identity of the college is a dilemma. It is the deep agony about whether the humans the college education produces are the humans fit for what education intends for.
In such a reality, the recognition on the importance of the role of humanities in college general education is increasing. Since humanities reflects humans and the their lives, it is in an inseparable relation with practice.
This study will focus on studying the importance of Humanities in general education, name a course “the Clemente School” after the “Clemente Course”, which is a humanities lecture for the homeless/the poor by Earl Shoris, and present a tentative plan of a practical humanities lecture. The Clemente Course is creating a sensation worldwide and has been widely known as an effective program that helps the homeless develop thoughts on “self-reflective life”, “autonomy”, and “critical thinking”, and thus have an insight in the connection between themselves and the surrounding environment, and form a sense as a responsible citizen. Therefore in this study are introduced the two courses of the Clemente School curriculum, one humanities course, applying the Clemente course in the college curriculum for college students to prepare them as global leaders with good character and one for the local residents of communities. |
| Key Words:
Clemente Course, Clemente School, basic reflection, humanities, critical thinking |
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