KEDI 영재 리더십 프로그램: 기초연구 및 프로그램 개발

Abstract

Since 2000 when ‘Gifted Education Promotion Act’ had established, gifted education drew attention from the various parts of the society including educators and policy makers. Regarding this, many opinion leaders and experts have emphasized on socio-emotional aspects of gifted education such as development of character and leadership skills of the gifted so that they successfully become the future good leaders of the society. To address this issue, the National Research Center for Gifted and Talented Education at KEDI(Korean Educational Development Institute) conducted the five years of research on leadership including extensive literature review and a meta-analysis of leadership components, development of a leadership inventory, a survey on Korean people’s expectations for gifted children’s leadership, and a study of current Korean adult leaders’ leadership characteristics. Based on the series of the studies, KEDI Leadership Program for the gifted was finally developed. KEDI Leadership Program is composed of twenty-four teacher guidebooks which identified eight specific targets for leadership education such as ‘vision’, ‘confidence’, ‘selfcontrol’, ‘morality’, ‘responsibility’, ‘communication skills’, ‘caring for others’, and ‘commitment to the society’ in three levels of program for each eight target. The program basically has an activity-orientation which generates plenty of student-teacher and peer interactions for the gifted to practice and enhance their leadership skills. Although further studies are necessary to test the effectiveness of this program, the program itself conveys the message to the field about the importance of leadership education for the gifted.