한국 대학교육의 본질적 문제와 개혁의 방향

Abstract

The educational reform of Korean government since 1945 is focussed it's practical policies on the systematic and quantitative reform rather than qualitative reform. So the purpose of this article is investigating the essential problems of Korea university educational reform and presenting the new direction of reform.First, the results of investigating of the essential problems of Korea university educational reform are summarized in following four dimensions; ①the problems concerning what the essential function of university is, ②the problems concerning the quality of university education and the methodology of educational evaluation, ③the problems concerning the influences of university education to the secondary school education and the duties of universities, at the Korea education ④the problems concerning the freedom and autonomy of university.And the directions of problem solving are summarized in following five items.First, the university education reform must be focussed on the essential functions of university, that is, the integration of research and teaching.Second, all efforts of the reform must be centered to the innovation of teaching methodology and evaluation technique.Third, strictness and exactness in the managing process of all school affairs must be established and maintained in order to enhance the educational quality.Forth, administration and university management must be so opened and honest as to establish the trust needed for educational reform.And last, Seoul National University must put all devices mentioned above into practice, because SNU is the most influential institution in Korea education.