고교평준화 정책 논쟁의 기독교 교육적 함의

Abstract

One of the perennial debates on Korean school education is the issue of high school equalization policy. The purpose of this paper is to examine the debate on the high school equalization policy and to suggest some implications for Christian schools. High school equalization policy has contributed to normalization of middle school education, equal opportunities, minimization of quality gap between high schools. However, there is much debated on the following issues: what is and ought to be in relation to school choice; popular reason vs. empirical evidence on effects of equalization on educational quality; in principle vs. in reality of private school autonomy. The high school equalization policy has limitations as follows: difficulties of allowing diversity of school's educational aims; difficulties from having a private school identity; and difficulties from professing religious beliefs and values. Under the present circumstances, Christian schools should make efforts in two ways: firstly, they practise Christian education in a tacit way; secondly, in a positive way they should claim the autonomy of a private school in general and a Christian school in particular or switch from a private school in the public system to an independent private school outside the system.