Significance of Feminist Epistemology in Christian Religious Education: Knowledge as a Learning Experience Calls for Community as a Producer of Knowledge
This paper introduces an attempt of feminist theorists to make sense of traditional philosophers from a contemporary standpoint. What comes about as a result of this effort is the construction of feminist epistemology. Consequently, another conversation must follow in which a conversation with post-modern philosophers more clearly delineates our search of knowledge that helps us understand God, the world and ourselves. Using our everyday life experiences as the source of valuable knowledge requires a relationship between a knowing subject(knower) and the object(known) while taking subjectivity seriously. This kind of knowledge also fully advocates objectivity with a socially situated standpoint. A dialogue between feminist theorists and post-modern philosophers reaches a consensus about the need for community to be a producer of knowledge, while at the same time, a particular individual in the community coexists as ‘knower’ and ‘known,’ and is encouraged to be an agent of knowledge. Finally, feminist epistemology brings together “strange”and “normal,” “the power” and “the powerless,” or “main”and “peripheral,” which will set an example of how to be together for the faith community.
목차
Abstract Ⅰ. Introduction Ⅱ. Summary of Reading Philosophy fromFeminist Perspectives 1. Ancient Greek 2. Modern Rationalism 3. Empiricism 4. Kant 5. Pragmatism Ⅲ. Feminist Epistemology Constructed 1. The Knower and the Known 2. Objectivity of Knowledge 3. Producer of Knowledge: Community 4. Bodies as Subjective Knowledge Ⅳ. Feminist Epistemology Meets with TwentyCentury Epistemology 1. Feminist Epistemology and Rorty 2. Wittgenstein and feminist epistemology Ⅴ. Conclusion Bibliography
한국기독교교육학회 [The Korean Society for the Study of Christian Religious Education]
설립연도
1960
분야
인문학>기독교신학
소개
한국에 복음이 들어오고, 교회가 설립된 것은 19세기 말이었다.
해방이 되면서 한국교회는 더욱 발전하게 되었고 그에 따라 기독교교육의 중요성과 필요성도 강조되게 되었다. 그러한 과정에 기독교교육을 전공한 학자들이 귀국함에 따라 그들을 중심으로 한국기독교교육학회를 결성할 필요성을 느껴 설립하게 되었다.
한국기독교교육학회의 설립 목적은 기독교교육학의 이론적 발전과 실천을 위한 연구와 장을 확대해가려는 것이다. 그리고 학자들간의 연구교류와 교제를 위한 장을 마련하기 위하여 본 학회를 1960년에 설립하였다.