학교교육의 미래 전망 (CERI의 미래 학교 전망 시나리오에 대한 교육계 리더들의 인식)

Abstract

This study focused on the prospect of developing school education in Korea and dealt with the issues that are likely to happen in its realization process. This study is based on the six different scenarios that were suggested by CERI(Center for Education Research Institute), an affiliated institute of OECD, to globally investigate the future of school education. Specifically, they are: 1)robust bureaucratic school system; 2)extending the market model; 3)schools as core social centres; 4)schools as focused learning organization; 5)learner networks and the network society; and 6)teacher Exodus - the 'meltdown' scenario. Among them, the scenarios 1) and 2) were made under the assumption of maintenance of the status quo; 2) and 3), its re-schooling; 4) and 5), its de-schooling.The group of educational leaders in Korea prefers a restructuring of the current school system into a completely new one as its desirable future, rather than either maintaining the current system or letting schools melt down. Even though the possibility of its realization appeared to be practically lower than that of keeping the current system going on, the re-schooling scenario i.e., the future roles of schools as focused learning organization and as core social centers were surveyed as the most prominent prospects for the school system in the future. It emerged that this result was nearly identical to the ones of the same study investigated by CERI on eight different Asian-Pacific countries. Moreover, this study dealt with some possible problems that will take place in the process of realizing the two scenarios. Roughly we raised two problems: a problem of how much money we are able to invest as its budget and a problem of how to make either regional or class differences alleviated.