The Purpose of this study is to offer suggestions for the effective education for children with disabilities from a Christian education perspective. If the connection between knowing and living is one of the important tasks of Christian education, the...
The Purpose of this study is to offer suggestions for the effective education for children with disabilities from a Christian education perspective. If the connection between knowing and living is one of the important tasks of Christian education, then the healing and caring of Jesus Christ for a blind man, Bartimaeus, on the road (Mark 10: 46-52) is the responsibility that requires urgent attention of the Korean churches. Thus, in this study, I explore the education of children with disabilities and Christian educational suggestions for that.
The structure of the study is as follows: chapter II describes the introduction of the special education for exceptional children in order to find the effective education of children with disabilities. How do we effectively deliver and teach the precious Gospel to children with disabilities? Educational specialists offer proper and individualized education for children with disabilities based on special educational technology and integrated education between disabled children and children who have no disabilities based on the transition education for the socialization. Chapter III introduces recent issues regarding disability rights and the reality of church education of disabled person in Korea. As an alternative to Christian education, chapter IV explores Maria Harris’s education for “the outsiders” including “the power to receive” and “the power to act.” Chapter V applies Harris’s education to the effective education of disabled children through four tools of practical theology by Richard R. Osmer. This includes Christian values “to serve” and “to share” which goes beyond “to have” and “to be.”
This study explores the strategic and practical task of education for children with disabilities based on Maria Harris’s education for outsiders. Even though it is a small step for the reformation or change of Korean churches’ view of the disabled person, I hope that my study will be in continuous cooperation with the Creator God who created, creates, and will forever perfectly create the disabled person. Soli Deo gloria.