이 논문은 한국 최초 여성 기독교교육학자 주선애의 ‘공적(public) 기독교교육사상 및 실천’에 관한 논문이다. 주선애는 한국 최초로 대학에 기독교교육과를 설립하였고, 한국 기독교교육의 이론과 실천의 측면에서 다양한 기초를 놓았으며, 더 나아가 한국 기독교교육학회 창단 맴버 중의 한 사람이기도 하다. 따라서 한국기독교교육학의 뿌리를 찾으려는 사람은 결코 비켜갈 수 없는 인물이다.
그러나 주선애는 단순히 한국 기독교교육의 뿌리로서만이 아니라, ‘사회적신뢰의 상실’, ‘공교회성 상실’과 같은 문제로 위기 가운데에 있는 한국교회가 나아가야 할 방향에 대한 통찰을 주는바, 그녀의 기독교교육 이론과 실천은 철저히‘공적(public)’ 기독교교육 이론이자 실천이었기 때문이다. 따라서 본고는 그녀의생애와 기독교교육 이론 그리고 실천을 ‘공적 기독교교육’이라고 하는 차원에서재구성하였다.
그녀의 생애에 대한 고찰을 통해 본고는 그녀가 살았던 시대적 배경과 그의도전, 그에 대한 그녀의 섬김의 영성을 바탕으로 한 응답이 그녀의 기독교교육을‘공적’이 되게 하였다는 것을 살펴보았다. 또한 그녀의 기독교교육 이론에 나타난‘사회 변화를 궁극적 목적으로 하는 기독교교육’, ‘학교식 패러다임을 넘어 사회적운동으로서의 기독교교육’, ‘상황성을 바탕으로 한 기독교교육 이론’, ‘실천적 기독교교육학하기’ 들이야말로 그녀의 기독교교육을 ‘공적 기독교교육’이 되게 하였으며, 더 나아가 공적 신학을 실제적으로 구현하는 통로가 됨을 살펴보았다.
그런 의미에서 주선애의 기독교교육 사상과 실천은 한국 기독교교육학의 뿌리에 대한 통찰을 줄 뿐만 아니라 그와 나란히, 위기 가운데 있는 오늘의 한국 교회기독교교육이 나아가야 할 방향에 대한 통찰을 준다고 할 수 있다.
This thesis focuses on “the Public Christian Educational Idea and Practices of Chou Sun-Ae, who is the “first woman scholar of Korean Christian Education.” She established the first department of Christian Education at a Korean University and laid various groundwork in terms of theory and practice for Christian Education in Korea. Furthermore, she is one of the founding members of the Korean Society of Christian Education, which makes her a significant subject in understanding the development of Christian Education in Korea. She is not only one of the major roots of Korean Christian Education but also gives valuable insights to Korean Churches that are suffering from crisis resulting from the problems of ‘the loss of social trust’ and ‘the loss of the characteristic of Publicness of Church?’ This is possible because her theory and practice of Christian Education has concentrated on “Publicness.” Accordingly, this thesis intends to reconstruct her life and the theory and practice of Christian Education in light of “Public Christian Education.” First, through the study of her life, this thesis finds that her response to the time period in which lived and its challenges made her ‘Public’ Christian Education. Second, through her theory of Christian Education, this thesis discovers that ‘Christian Education with view to changing the society’. ‘Christian Education as a social movement beyond schooling paradigm’, ‘Christian Education based on contextuality’, ‘her doing Christian Education as a praxis’ etc. made her public Christian Education. These elements became part of her path to actualizing public theology within the field of Christian Education. In that sense, it is appropriate to say that Chou Sun-Ae’s ideas and practices give insight into the direction that Korean churches walking in the middle of a grave crisis should go today, as well as giving insight into the roots and history of Korean Christian Education.
This thesis focuses on “the Public Christian Educational Idea and Practices of Chou Sun-Ae, who is the “first woman scholar of Korean Christian Education.” She established the first department of Christian Education at a Korean University and laid various groundwork in terms of theory and practice for Christian Education in Korea. Furthermore, she is one of the founding members of the Korean Society of Christian Education, which makes her a significant subject in understanding the development of Christian Education in Korea. She is not only one of the major roots of Korean Christian Education but also gives valuable insights to Korean Churches that are suffering from crisis resulting from the problems of ‘the loss of social trust’ and ‘the loss of the characteristic of Publicness of Church?’ This is possible because her theory and practice of Christian Education has concentrated on “Publicness.” Accordingly, this thesis intends to reconstruct her life and the theory and practice of Christian Education in light of “Public Christian Education.” First, through the study of her life, this thesis finds that her response to the time period in which lived and its challenges made her ‘Public’ Christian Education. Second, through her theory of Christian Education, this thesis discovers that ‘Christian Education with view to changing the society’. ‘Christian Education as a social movement beyond schooling paradigm’, ‘Christian Education based on contextuality’, ‘her doing Christian Education as a praxis’ etc. made her public Christian Education. These elements became part of her path to actualizing public theology within the field of Christian Education. In that sense, it is appropriate to say that Chou Sun-Ae’s ideas and practices give insight into the direction that Korean churches walking in the middle of a grave crisis should go today, as well as giving insight into the roots and history of Korean Christian Education.
