'Please Don't Destroy Until It's Completely Destroyed': Arts of Education towards Democracy

Autor/in	Yun, SunInn
Titel	'Please Don't Destroy Until It's Completely Destroyed': Arts of Education towards Democracy
Quelle	In: Journal of Philosophy of Education, 55 (2021) 3, S.506-515 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Yun, SunInn)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0309-8249
DOI	10.1111/1467-9752.12580
Schlagwörter	Democracy; Sculpture; Historic Sites; Historical Interpretation; Art; Freedom; Memory; Teaching Methods; History Instruction; Foreign Countries; Racial Bias; Activism; Relocation; Violence; Authoritarianism; Public Officials; South Korea + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Demokratie; Bildhauerei; Historische Stätte; Historische Interpretation; Arts; Kunst; Freiheit; Gedächtnis; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; History lessons; Geschichtsunterricht; Ausland; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Umsetzung; Gewalt; Autoritarismus; Korea; Republik
Abstract	The Black Lives Matter campaign has led many people around the world to reassess monuments that are installed in public spaces to commemorate historical figures. These reassessments raise questions about what it means to attack the statues of the past, what the rights and wrongs of such actions are, what this teaches us and how all this is passed on to the next generation. In line with this, I focus on a statue of the former dictator of Korea, Chun Doo-hwan, installed in 2019. The purpose of the statue was, however, somewhat different from that of many other statues currently at issue. It was erected for the purpose of humiliation rather than respect. By examining the case of the statue of Chun Doo-hwan in Korea, this paper discusses the nature of democracy in relation to these attacks on statues. In particular, it attempts to interpret the installation of the statue as a form of art for an emancipated community, where democracy is understood as involving a haunting of the collective memory. It concludes that democracy is something never to be grasped fully, something that slips away from its intentions and that is always to be tested and reconsidered. Finally, the paper addresses the educational significance of the statue in question in terms of how history is to be taught and how, in our interactions with the statues around us, the past is to be remembered. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01