The Tasks of Korean Christian Education in the Global Period

The term ‘global’ was generalized in North American society since 1960’s. It is commonly used to describe with the whole world, and it is also used in words like globalization, globalize, globalizing etc. and they all mean the same globalization. Therefore it can be said that global means ‘the world’ and the global period ‘globalization’. One of the characteristics of global period is usually a phenomenon of the society. This is related with aspects of life such as culture, religion, and ideology. This is distinguished between a homogenization of smiliarity and a heterogenization of difference. This phenomenon gradually changes into characteristics of a new culture and generation by passing through readjustment of confusion, conflict, opposition and struggle. One of the question that arises in this context is the role of Korean Christian Education in the global period. There is an increase of interests in academic duties and charactereistcs in Christian Education; considerting it as a religious education in the global times. In this aspect, Christian Education is seen as an education of the global period because there is a vision of spiritual globalization embed in the Christian Education. I intend to search the inclinations and question of Korean Christian Education in the global period.