4차 산업혁명시대에 따른 전문대학 교양교육의 개선 방향 연구

Abstract

This study aims at suggesting a direction of improvement of liberal education at junior college according to the age of the fourth industrial revolution as a research to lead the creative vocational education of the world level, among the rapid changes of super-interfusion and super-connection. As research targets, I selected 100 persons of faculty members of Wonkwang Health Science University at the first survey and selected 6 persons at the second focus group interview. As a procedure of research, I got the deliberating approval about the study plan from the Committee of Biomedical Ethics, and carried out the quantitative research as the first survey to perform a survey concerning awareness and request extent, and satisfaction degree about the liberal education, by taking as targets the faculty members of Wonkwang Health Science University. Subsequently, based on the result, I performed a qualitative research by carrying out the second focus group interview to investigate the substantial voice from within concerning the essential goal and improvement direction of liberal education that the faculty members were aware of. In consequence, I suggest the following three items for improvement direction of liberal education at the junior college according to the age of the fourth industrial revolution. First, it should be improved into liberal education for the realization of essential goals as integrated liberal education, toward the direction to connect with life beyond strengthening a basic ability to be able to possess the insight through integration and interfusion among subjects by developing excellent contents in connection with major subjects and liberal subjects. Second, it should be improved into the organic liberal education courses to be able to give various knowledges in connection with the improvement of potentials of human beings and social practice, toward the direction to be able to acquire broad discernments and understandings concerning the overall life culture including practical knowledges through the research development of liberal education courses in relation with creative and interfusing cultivation of professionals to lead the fourth industrial revolution. Third, it should be improved into the contents of liberal education that helps to be able to extend the consciousness of self-development and the community spirit, for realizing human happiness and the public interest, toward the direction to correspond to the demand of the times and society, and to strengthen the competitiveness of colleges by composing various subjects through extending practice of liberal education to utilize K-MOOC. This study has a meaning that it suggested improvement direction of liberal education at the junior college through the case research of Wonkwang Health Science University. Also, the three kinds of improvement direction of liberal education at the junior college according to the age of the fourth industrial revolution, suggested at this study, are a common direction that junior colleges should pursue basically all over the world beyond a case of one college.