거주지별 교육환경의 차별화

Abstract

It?s an implicit idea of education in the traditional Korean society that ?The more education you get, the richer you will be and the more you will succeed.? With the strong introduction of social and economical conditions into the educational levels, however, there has occurred a tendency of education serving as a tool to maintain and reinforce social classes not as one to change them. In other words, the spatial differentiation of residential areas, which reflect one?s social and economic status, has led to differentiation of educational environments, one of serious social issues today. This study set out to compare Seoul and Birmingham in terms of the spatial inequality in residential areas caused by different social and economic status and the tendency of great educational environments generating great educational results.The findings were as follows; first, there were very significant correlations among educational attainment, housing costs, and educational performance. Second, Seoul had educational results affected by educational attainment and housing costs more than Birmingham. Third, Seoul observed the trend of correlations among educational attainment, housing costs, and educational performance become even stronger. Fourth, there were clusters of areas whose educational attainment was high, housing costs were a lot, and educational results were favorable.Finally, it?s suggested that a long-term perspective should be taken toward research into differences of educational attainment according to areas and social classes. Even though it?s been long since the differences were first adopted as the subject, there is lack of theoretical system and data due to fragmentary research practices. The research infrastructure needs to be established so that time series analysis can be possible and that solutions to the polarization of educational attainment and education can be made systematically and effectively.