코로나19 대응 사례를 통해 살펴본 재미한글학교의 역량과 의의

Abstract

Korean education in the Americas has been in line with the history of Korean immigration for 115 years, and the Korean School, a representative identity education institution, is the world's largest scale and has established itself as a cradle of next-generation root education. However, in March 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, schools were ordered to close in the Americas, facing a crisis of having to stop education. In this paper, we looked at the capabilities, educational effects, and significance of Korean schools in times of crisis, paying attention to cases of responding to COVID-19, such as switching to non-face-to-face classes, conducting online class training, and sharing teaching methods and materials. As a research method, various data were collected through interviews with the principal, teachers, and parents of the Korean Schools, and chairmen of Association of Korean Schools, as well as through the website of Korean Schools and Association and Korean media articles. First, the history and value of Korean-American education, and the current status of Korean School and were examined. Specific examples largely shed light on the passion and efforts for root education and functions of next-generation American educational institutions, such as preparation and process for online education, content and implementation, centering on Association and Korean school. Finally, the capabilities and educational effects of next-generation educational institutions for overseas Koreans who achieved uninterrupted education and developmental changes in the era of crisis were identified. Through this, the significance of strengthening the status as an educational institution, realizing the educational values of cooperation and symbiosis, and conducting future-oriented education leading the times, and proposing to strengthen the capacity as a professional educational institution.