Education Contents and Ecological Education of Dong-hak Thought

ABSTRACT

There are several claims and assumptions in ecologism. They all have the basic ideas such as humanism and civilization. However, ecologism wants a change about the thought and order of humanism and civilization. It claims that the whole universe or all beings of global ecological system has the same with the values of humanism and civilization. On this ecological view, the education has the value as the purpose when all global organism and non-organism keep their lives with all interactions among them. Thus, the ecological education means to realize oneself and teach it. In addition, the teaching method also refers to only education involved ecological views.A problem is suggested whether Bul-yeon-gi-yeon and Mu-wi-i-wha become educational contents for realizing the value and the ideology of Yang-cheon-ju. In other words, Bul-yeon-gi-yeon is the basic principle saying unreasonableness of dualism, known and unknown orders. That is the teaching contents for realization of Dong-hak. It is also possible to explain with the same logic that Mu-wi-i-wha is also resulted from Bul-yeon-gi-yeon.As a result, the world view of Dong-hak basically takes up the ecological position. In other words, the core ideas such as Shi-cheon-ju & Yang-cheon-ju, and I-cheon-sik-cheon & Bul-yeon-gi-yeon have the logical bases of thought change from the present paradigms such as humanism, civilization and centering for male to the renovated paradigms such as equality of all things, ecological views and equality of a human being. This means that the ideology of Dong-hak has the ecological world views.