한국의 인재양성 흐름과 교육적 맥락

Abstract

This research was aimed at investigating educational context of training talented individuals through close review of the concepts of talented individuals or outstanding personnel and historical aspect of human resources training. Talented individuals or outstanding personnel have something to do with endowed quality of human beings, and it can be interpreted as two dimensional systems. In the aspect that all humans in general have innate quality, it has universality, and in the aspect that there is a necessity to admit differences between people, and that those talented individuals exhibit more superb quality than other individuals, it has specialty. This can be reinterpreted in terms of equality and excellence of education. When reviewing training human resources in historical aspect, in the traditional society, the courses were conducted with a focus on training for candidates for public officials that the state required. During the establishment stage of the state system during the early phase of the newly-born the Republic of Korea, the country required state administration type individuals, and during the modernization stage of the country in 1960s, the country required economy type individuals centering on technical and functional expertise, and in the 1970s, the state required corporate-type individuals under outward-looking policy of Koreanized democracy. In 1980s, having reached democratic period along with developments of science and technologies, the country made much of the gifted individuals as administrators of resourceful technologies, and during the informatization and internalization stage since after 1990s, the country put more weights on training functional multiplayer having valued intellectuals with creativity. In this regard, training talented individuals can be understood as an educational objective of the nation on which the situation of the society in the relevant period has been reflected in an affirmative fashion.