2000년 이후 북한 교원양성에 관한 연구 ― 교원교육의 정치적 접근 ―

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to check the relation between raising teachers and teachers' speciality according to teachers' education system in North Korea in order to prepare for integration of education and educational innovation between the South and the North after re-unification. The government of North Korea reinforced its control over education as a solution to economical crisis and social changes that were threatening the North not to maintain its socialist system in the 1990. The focus of controlling education is improving quality of teachers, which is raising teachers and re-educating teachers in North Korea. There are political controls over teachers such as regular and mandatory tests for certification, enforcement of specified education principles, organizations for training teachers confined to dual system of party-government, focusing on political courses in school, censoring methods of teaching, various unification policies so called 'March of ordeals', and political organizations. All the respects in relation to quality of teachers are under control of the government. Teachers in the North are only required to function as intermediators supporting political socialization and transferring simple technology or information. It lowers speciality of teachers, only reinforcing functions as educational bureaucrats, to give teachers overburden administrative jobs and to raise teachers in party-government system of the North.