고등학습인정 관련 법제의 변화 분석

Abstract

Since the 1990s, there has been a continuous enactment and revision of laws in Korea that recognize high-level learning outcomes obtained through various channels. In this paper, the change and significance of the legislative system for recognition of higher learning is analyzed. The legislation on lifelong education has provided grounds for recognizing non-formal and informal learning outcomes through a separate system outside the university, and the legislation on vocational education has laid the grounds for recognizing vocational experience of adult workers as a traditional university or non-university credit. On the other hand, the Higher Education Act, which has a general status of recognition of higher learning, partially accepts non-formal and informal learning, but basically has maintained conservative recognition logic based on formal learning results. These legislation, in common, provided a new framework in which non-formal and informal learning also could be managed and recognized within the system. This has changed the way people characterize learning within the system. This is an extension of higher learning and education, while softening the boundaries between degree and non-degree, and non-formal and informal learning. This comprehensive recognition of higher learning is not a matter of working with the addition of a legal clause, but the logical consistency of learning recognition throughout the relevant legislation is important. Furthermore, it was discussed that the concern about the new learning recognition method is the issue that is linked with how to reconstruct the higher education system.