직업교육에서의 산학협력 활성화 방안 탐색

Abstract

The Government, industries, and vocational education institutes, all together have made efforts for development of the industry-school cooperation in Korea. However, they are still tackling with various problems for the cooperation in accordance with changes in the global village and economic and societal changes in Korea. This study aimed at not only investigating problems of the industry-school cooperation, but also exploring developmental policies for the industry-school cooperation. Review of the related literature was the main research methodology in this study. The result of exploring the problems of the industry-school cooperation shows that there are not a consistent definition of the cooperation, a proper differentiation in accordance with school level, the coherent lawful arrangements, and sufficient financial supports. Based upon the results of the study, the article made policy suggestions as follows. Firstly, A consistent definition of the industry-school cooperation and coherent contents of the cooperation are needed. In particular, the cooperation is needed to be defined as "cooperative activities that are performed by the Government, industries, and vocational education institutes, and research institutes in running of cooperative education program, cooperative R&D, exchange of human and material resources, and exchange of information for the development of the society and the nation." Secondly, New paradigm of the industry-school cooperation is to be developed. It needs to show the new roles of each stakeholders. Thirdly, the central and local governments needs to expand financial supports especially for vocational colleges and vocational high schools.