| This professional project intends to find functional educational approaches for the multi-religious Korean context, adapting the traditioning model, which is explored in Mary Elizabeth Moore's Education for Continuity and Change. The assumption is that the traditioning model can be adapted as an effective frame for solving the serious problems of Christian education in Korean churches.;Since Korean Christian theologies have been formulated in harmony with the four major religious traditions, they may be called Christian Shamanistic theology, Christian Confucian theology, and Christian Buddhist theology, and Minjung theology. These Korean theologies suggest some insights for finding approaches to Christian education which would be most fitting in the Korean context.;The traditional model is influenced by process theological thinking. Since the main idea of the model is the dynamic interrelation of past tradition, present experience, and future hope, it is affirmed to be a frame to solve the problems and tasks in Korean churches. However, it is to be adapted to the Korean context so that Korean religious traditions and Christianity will be transformed and renewed.;Using the adapted traditioning model, twenty approaches to education are roughly suggested in their concepts, foundations, curricula, context, and roles of teachers. This paper explores the approaches with the expectation that they will be studied further. The twenty approaches are: (1) spirituality, (2) healing, (3) prayer, (4) ecstasy, (5) celebration, (6) family, (7) liturgy, (8) Bible study, (9) schooling, (10) morality, (11) leadership, (12) meditation, (13) asceticism, (14) monastery, (15) intuition, (16) praxis, (17) faith community, (18) deschooling, (19) conscientization, and (20) people movement.;In Korea's long history, four major religions have taken root, and have strongly influenced the entire culture, namely, Shamanism, Confucianism, Buddhism and Chontokyo. Currently, Christianity has had the strongest influence among the major religions. Consequently, Christianity, in its education and mission, faces some problems and tasks such as conflicts between textualization and contextualization, syncretism, and founding a Christian nation. |
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