Maria Harris’s Educational Theory Applied to the Korean Religious Context

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The primary purpose of this paper is to discover how to apply ideas of Maria Harris’s educational theory to the Korean context. The traditional, the Korean context has various religious backgrounds. Therefore, we cannot impose our religion on a person of another religion. In this situation, spirituality is a good contact point and method of communicating with others. The same situation is found in industrialized Korean society. Also spirituality has become one of the larger issues for people in modern society. For Christianity, Francis of Assisi, Hildegard of Bingen, and Julian of Norwich have come into the spotlight again. It is because of the spiritual thirst that modern human beings needs the spiritual dimension of religion. Now, to share and communicate with other religions, spirituality is one of the important contact points. In spite of that, for many years, the spiritual aspect of teaching has been neglected in educational fields.
Koreans have always had many spiritual elements in their traditional religions. In today’s situation, how do we Christians transfer our spiritual message to this multi-religious and multi-cultural society? In this study, I will find these spiritual contact points between the Korean religious context and Maria Harris’ ideas of educational theory. How do the assertions of Maria Harris’s educational theory and Taoism and Buddhism differ on the same problems and issues? And what similarities and common contact points are there? These questions will be explored in more detail.

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