기독교학교에서의 대학입시에 대한 인식 —대안학교와 미션스쿨의 비교 연구—

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the differences in the perception of college entrance exam between alternative schools and mission schools. This research examines high school principals’ understanding of highly competitive college entrance exam in Korea. Moreover, it displays a comparative analysis between alternative schools and mission schools with regards to the following five categories: 1) the understanding of college entrance exam, 2) the educational purpose, 3) the value standard of students’ academic and career counseling, 4) self-learning and supplementary lessons at schools, and 5) the importance of faithful life. The results of this study show that there exist differences in all the above mentioned categories between alternative schools and mission schools. Compared to mission schools, alternative schools have higher Christian perspectives on college entrance exam: the perspective of God’s calling, the perspective of God’s talents, the perspective on building God’s Kingdom, and the perspective on excellency in the order. This research found that while mission schools focused on happiness in life, raising virtuous humans, and cultivating men of talents for the nation; alternative schools concentrated on bringing up students as truly faithful Christians and professional Christians. Alternative schools showed that higher the mean of educational purpose is, higher the mean of value standard of students’ academic and career counseling becomes. Alternative schools rarely or selectively enforced extra self-learning time and supplementary lessons at school. Compared to mission schools, alternative schools practiced higher levels of character education, religious (Biblical knowledge) education, chapel (worship) service, Bible study, and Q.T.(quiet time). Specifically, for Q.T, the research results showed that alternative schools encouraged students to exercise Q.T more than mission schools. According to the results, the importance of faithful life was closely related to the educational purpose and the value standard of students’ academic and career counseling. The importance of the study is to analyze differences in high school principals’ perception of college entrance exam between alternative and mission schools and to suggest what factors influence to Christian understandings of college entrance exam for the future study.