이명박 정부의 초등교육정책에 대한 비판적 고찰: 교육변화의 관점에서 = A Review of Elementary Education Policy of Lee Myung-bak Government from the Educational Change Perspective

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Lee Myung-bak government vowed to move from the age of ideology into the age of pragmatism and declared to pursue large scale national level educational reforms in elementary education. In order to succeed the large scale national level educational reforms, planned and adopted educational policies should be reviewed from the educational change perspective. According to Fullan(1993, 2001), managing moral purpose and change agentry is at the heart of productive educational change and three main interactive factors affecting actual implementation. In this article, the large scale national level education reforms pursued by Lee Myung-bak government were analyzed and discussed whether they aim for making a difference in individual students and teachers and whether they are interactive in the system of variables affecting implementation of educational reforms. Characteristics of change such as need, clarity, complexity, and quality/practicality were analyzed. The results were in the following: First, the educational reforms of Lee Myung-bak government were subordinated to economic revitalization through deregulation and market-friendly reforms. As such, the educational reforms pledged to economic revival, not to moral purpose of education. Second, the educational reforms were not interactive in the system of variables as expected. It was suggested that the educational reforms of Lee Myung-bak government should be reexamined at least in terms of educational change perspective.