선진국의 직업교육법제 동향과 시사점 = Trends of Vocational Education Legislation in Selected Industrialized Countries and Their Implications

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study was to explore the trends of vocational education legislation in the selected industrialized countries and to draw their implications to Korean vocational education legislation. For the purpose, authors reviewed vocational education systems, history of vocational education laws, vocational education policies and current major vocational education laws in the USA, England, Australia, Germany, and Japan.The Industrialized countries had enacted vocational education laws to promote and support vocational education responding to changes in national economic and social developments. Their major trends were identified such as: ① fostering academic skills, ② promoting school to work transition, ③ restructuring lifelong vocational education system, ④ focusing on competence-based education, ⑤ increasing stable finance support, and ⑥ adopting systematic approaches to quality control of vocational education programs. The following six implications were made for restructuring Korean vocational education law system: ① supporting diverse vocational educational opportunities to promote school-to-work transition, ② fostering the quality control of vocational education and training, ③ enhancing the development of vocational core competencies, ④ assisting the self-regulation of the vocational education and training institutes, ⑤ reinforcing the vocational education assistance to minorities, and ⑥ advancing the funding system of vocational program development, dissemination, and management.