초록 열기/닫기 버튼
Multi-cultural students are increasing in the Christian schools of Korea. This situation demands to reflect the students’ multi-cultural circumstances in their educational context. Teaching the Bible is no exceptional. It should be taught to the diverse students without any conflict or resistance. To do so, we have to reconsider how to teach the Bible to the diverse students. First of all, the Bible supports diversity, which should be regarded as a great strength for the multi-cultural education of the Christian schools. However, its diversity does not mean that the Bible gives up unity. It is also pursued, because every perspective is limited. Therefore,diversity and unity are not polar opposites in the Bible, but the one exists for the other. Second, to teach the Bible in the multi-cultural school, its teachers should become people who are culturally competent. To become such people, they should be not only aware their own Christian heritage and identity, including multi-cultural characteristics in the Bible, but also be culturally responsive to their students. Such teachers will help their students function effectively in their diverse cultural situations. Third, students in the multi-cultural education should be understood as God’s images, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic class, religion, or political status. The concept should not be understood ontologically, but relationally. It suggests that the students should play roles as God’s representatives in the world of creation. Fourth, possible themes for teaching the Bible in the multi-cultural education are the image of God, the kingdom of God, wisdom, and so on. Such themes should be taught not from the perspective of Christian doctrine, but from the perspective of biblical knowledge. Scientific approaches to the Bible will be helpful in this education. Through this way of teaching the Bible, the students will not only learn its world view, values,morality, ethic, and dream, but also reflect such ideas in their life.
키워드열기/닫기 버튼
Bible, Multi-culture, Multi-cultural society, Multi-cultural education, Christian school
