The Catholic Alternative Education

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to investigate that why the Catholic alternative education should be needed and what kinds of principles should be applied to the Catholic alternative education. For accomplishing this purpose, this study revealed the problems facing today’s Korean school education and those of the Catholic school education as well. The problems of the Korean school education could be summarized as incapability, collapse of public education system, ‘three-loss’education, and the end of era of study. While the problems of the Catholic school education could be categorized into such issues as new evangelization, wholeness, spirituality, community, small school, theological ecologism, and teacher as a vocation. Finally, this study suggests two directions for the Catholic alternative education in Korea. First, the existing Catholic schools should be reformed by using seven principles described above. Second, new Catholic school with new paradigm of Catholic education using the same principles.