다문화교육 관련 법령의 문제점과 개선방향

Abstract

Korea rapidly turns out to be the multi-cultural society along with the increasing numbers of foreign workers and marriage immigrants and with the wave of globalization. The change of social environment renders new problems of developing multi-cultural citizenship to social studies. In this study, we wish to give understandings about the laws which related to the multi-cultural education and analyse them to find the points to improve for making a better educational circumstance. Multi-cultural education in this country affected by Constitutional law, International law, the Korean Nationality Act, Emigration and immigration control Act, Labor law, Welfare Law and education related acts. But the legal articles are scattered and there is no integral law for multi-cultural education. To solve this problem, there should be profound conversations to reach the rational agreements about how to deal with the variety of multi-cultural families, how far their rights could be secured, how we could make new sense about nationality. In social studies, multi-cultural education could be the education for the multi-cultural minorities but on the other hand it also means the education about the social majorities to expand the horizons of citizenship. This study could be the starting point to tell the social system about multi-cultural education in our country.