[Dialogue] Peace and Reunification— How Should They Be Taught? / Moon A-Young, Jang YongHoon, Jeong Do-sang, and Jeong Yong-Min
The Quarterly Changbi 182, Winter 2018
Abstract
“Dialogue” presents a conversation about what kinds of education for peace and reunification our society needs in the rapidly changing situation on the Korean peninsula and the current inter-Korean relationship. Jeong Yong-Min, a teacher, scholar of North Korean studies, and author of the textbook Reunification Citizen Who Opens up an Age of Peace, moderated this dialogue among Moon A-Young, the founder and president of the peace education organization Peacemomo, Jang YongHoon, a reporter of Yonhap News Agency, and Jeong Do-sang, the standing committee member of the Joint Board of South and North Korea for the Compilation of Gyeoremal-keunsajeon. After critically examining current school education, which is still operating in the shadows of national security education, they discuss what should be done to carry out not only a peace education appropriate for our reality, one that goes beyond abstract theories, but also reunification education that can go beyond the restoration of national identity to the sharing of a future-oriented vision for the Korean peninsula.