21세기의 거시적 사회 환경의 변화 속에서 평생학습사회로의 이행이라는 변화는 교육적으로 중요한 의미를 지니는 변화라고 할 수 있다. 평생학습사회는 전통적 교수중심의 교육패러다임으로부터 학습자 중심의 교육패러다임의 변화 및 그에 따른 교육현실의 변화를 요구하고 있기 때문이다. 이러한 교육패러다임과 교육현실의 변화 속에서 제기되는 교육학 연구의 과제는 다각적으로 검토되어야 할 것이다. 본 논문은 규범적/개념적 접근을 특징으로 하는 교육철학적 연구에서 제기되는 몇 가지 기본적인 연구과제로서 1) 새로운 교육패러다임의 개념적 혼란 및 규범적 논의 부재 극복의 과제, 2) 삶의 각 발달단계가 지니는 고유 가치 인식의 과제, 3) 새로운 교육목적 및 교육적 인간상 정립의 과제, 4) 정의로운 교육기회 배분을 위한 평생 학습권 및 인권 개념 정립의 과제, 그리고 5) 교육학 연구의 방향제시 및 각 영역간의 대화 노력 선도 과제 등의 5가지의 과제에 대해 논의하고 있다

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Lifelong learning society is the essential part of the whole picture of the society in 21 century. Lifelong learning society might be able to free us from the cultural traps of 21 century’s post-modern world.
The notion of learning through life is hardly new. However, with the development of ‘lifelong learning society' makes it general that education should be lifelong. According to this view, lifelong education must not be regarded as a luxury for a few exceptional persons here and there, nor as a thing which concerns only a short span of early humanhood, but that lifelong education is a permanent national necessity, an inseparable aspect of citizenship, and therefore should be universal.
Some primary tasks of philosophy of education for the realization of ideal lifelong learning society are as following:
1) Philosophy of education should take charges for overcoming the confusion of the conceptions and norms related to the lifelong learning.
2) Philosophy of education should take charges for overcoming the ageism to realize the lifelong learning society where every individual of any age can have the equal opportunity of education.
3) Philosophy of education should be responsible for building up the ideal of the educated person as well as the purpose of education in lifelong learning society.
4) Philosophy of education should be answerable to the concepts of the individual's rights of lifelong learning and of human right to the degree that every individual in our society enjoys the human dignity and the quality of life. Indeed, without the effort of philosophy of education, we will fail to develop the concepts of the individual's right of lifelong learning and of human right to the degree that every individual in our society enjoys the human dignity and the quality of life.
5) Philosophy of education should be providing the vitality that enables each field of education to realize its responsibility for the betterment of present educational as well as social situation in such a way that educational practice in our society contributes to the humanization of our social practice.

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