이 연구는 C. S. 루이스와 함께 20세기 기독교를 대표하는 사상가로 알려진 프란시스 쉐퍼의 생애와 라브리 공동체를 살펴보고, 그것이 한국 교육에 줄 수 있는 시사점을 밝히는 데 목적이 있다. 쉐퍼는 삶의 가치들이 급격하게 다원화되고 상대화된 사회에서 살아가는 현대인들이 겪을 수밖에 없는 절망과 혼돈에 주목하고, 그것으로부터 개인의 삶을 보호해줄 수 있는 피난처로서의 교육공동체인 라브리를 형성하였다. 라브리는 ‘정직한 질문과 정직한 대답’, ‘실재를 실증하는 실험공동체’라는 교육적 특성을 보여준다. 이를 통해 쉐퍼의 라브리는 우리의 교육이 실천 없는 지식이 아닌 분명한 ‘교육실천의지’를 강화하는 방향으로 나아갈 것과 어떠한 주제에 대해서도 자유롭고 안전하게 대화할 수 있는 실존적 대화공동체로 재구성되어야 할 필요성을 보여준다. 또한 우리의 가정에서 부모가 자녀들에게 가장 좋은 대화 상대로서의 역할을 수행해 줄 뿐 아니라 부모 자신이 부부관계에서 대화적 관계의 모델이 되어줄 것을 요청하고 있다.
This study examines the life of Francis Schaefer — a thinker representing Christianity in the 20th century, along with C. S. Lewis and the L’Abri community — and reveals the impact on Korean education. Schaefer addressed the despair and chaos experienced by modern people living in a society where the values of life are rapidly diversified and relativized. That is why he formed L’abri, an educational community to protect individuals from it. L’abri shows the educational features of “honest questions and honest answers” and “an experimental community that proves reality.” Through this, Schaeffer’s L’abri shows that our education should go in a direction that strengthens the clear “will to practice education” rather than acquiring knowledge without practice. Furthermore, it must be reconstructed as an existential dialogue community that can communicate freely and safely on any topic. Also, parents are possibly the best conversation partners for their children in our homes. Before that, parents are asked to be models for conversational relationships in marital relationships.
This study examines the life of Francis Schaefer — a thinker representing Christianity in the 20th century, along with C. S. Lewis and the L’Abri community — and reveals the impact on Korean education. Schaefer addressed the despair and chaos experienced by modern people living in a society where the values of life are rapidly diversified and relativized. That is why he formed L’abri, an educational community to protect individuals from it. L’abri shows the educational features of “honest questions and honest answers” and “an experimental community that proves reality.” Through this, Schaeffer’s L’abri shows that our education should go in a direction that strengthens the clear “will to practice education” rather than acquiring knowledge without practice. Furthermore, it must be reconstructed as an existential dialogue community that can communicate freely and safely on any topic. Also, parents are possibly the best conversation partners for their children in our homes. Before that, parents are asked to be models for conversational relationships in marital relationships.
