• Journal of Christian Education in Korea
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• v.72
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• pp.273-291
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• 2022

The Industrial Revolution brought great development to the whole human history by the improvement of productive capacity. However, high speed development absorbed just on growth gave rise to resource depletion attack and economical inequality. If it might be neglected human society will meet unsustainable development situation. So UN has made effort to make sustainable development(SD) through global band together. SD concept considers it important to promote current development not giving damage to next generation's development. Then economy, environment and social integration should be harmonized and it demands governance for its actualization. SD gets to be a matter of common interest in education. New Millenium development Goals make African poor countries that are in blind spots of development advance toward gradual sustainable development by supporting programmes to these countries. Thus sustainable development education(SDE) is for future. It has an aim to give suitable education for all people who are all over the world. SDE tries to make health society and successful economical life for all. The concept of SD is found in the essential aims of Christian school and Christian education seeking justice and shalom. Christians are called as transformers for servant mission giving recover in corrupt world. Firstly, Christian school practise this mission making students think on Christian perspectives. Then it makes students serve for environment, economical fairness, social integration with servant mission. Also Christian school has a mission to seek both justice and shalom as a praxis beyond the intellectual dimension of education until fulfilling justice and shalom for all who are all over the world. Thus it can be that Christian school is an important educational institution for realizing sustainable development in that it is always to seek justice and shalom through restoration on the Christian educational perspective.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.496-512
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to analyze the social welfare ideology and social welfare education practice theory of Deok Joon Kim(1919-1992) who was a pioneer in Korean social welfare education and a founder of Korea's very first independent department of social welfare. Through examining his life, and social welfare related works, ideology and education practice theory following conclusions were derived. Relationship involving first, spirit of shalom, second, human dignity, third, love of the cross, fourth, social justice, fifth, worshiping God and loving human being, and sixth, love of neighbors were found. These social welfare ideology and social welfare education practice theory of Deok Joon Kim are values that can resolve today's Korean social welfare education problems and insights which would reestablish essential goals and objectives in cultivating social workers with principles. These could be applied to Korean social welfare education in forms involving social worker's justice, stance, role, and function.