| Brief history of KATPIS |
KATPIS
dates back to a "Studying Philosophy" circle which
were founded at Seoul National University of Education in the
1960's for the cause of "Human Revolution through Human
Education". The circle members, guided by Prof. Chosik
Lee (the present president of KATPIS), have been studying philosophy
and, as teachers, trying to promote philosophical way of thinking
within classrooms up to the present. Such efforts made social
expressions such as translating and introducing foreign resources
during the 1980's. Indeed, the activities of the Studying Philosophy
Circle played a pioneering role in awakening the need of doing
philosophy in the classrooms.
Meanwhile, our society has become
aware of the importance of teaching philosophy. Simultaneously,
there appeared the trends of climbing the bandwagon of teaching
philosophy, which we thought was due to superficial understandings
of doing philosophy. So, the members of "the Studying Philosophy
Circle", with Prof. Chosik Lee so far in charge of them,
arrived at the conclusion that there must be an authentic research
group for teaching philosophy in our country. In 1995, thus,
KATPIS was founded for realizing the above cause. At present,
a number of primary and secondary teachers with strong background
in philosophy and university faculties all interested in teaching
philosophy are involved in KATPIS. They are now pursuing their
own research concerns under the sub-groups. KATPIS has, among
other things, established an intensive research bond between
academic and practical areas of teaching philosophy. |
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