교원공로연수법 제정의 필요성과 입법방향

Abstract

As the population is aging in Korean society, the demand for retirement preparation has been escalating. However, retirees encounter economic problems, social loss, sense of alienation, and loss of self-esteem due to lack of resources and capacity to solve the problem. The purpose of this study was to review the necessity for the legal establishment of pre-retirement education program for teachers focusing on the Service Training System for Meritorious. The new legal establishment needs to be considered from these dimensions: fairness with the other public officials, teachers’ morale, shift of the life cycle based on the extension of life span. As the pre-retirement education program is a controversy in terms of its lack of　social relevance in that the program does not contribute to mainly ordinary civil servants officials, the new legal establishment for teachers needs to be considered carefully to propose and to utilize as the results in favor of a society. Also in morale support of teachers, the Ministry of Education has been implementing various system with an aim to enhance the self-esteem of teachers by providing conditions so that teachers can concentrate on class. The various systems consist of an internal and external factors, based on the individual motivation and collective motivation theory. The new legal establishment should pursue　maintaining its fairness when comparing with the previous system for the civil servants. It should also needs to pursue to recover the teachers’ pride as a professional.