Korean education policies were derived from the 5.31 Education Reform oriented
to the increase of autonomy and accountability for school effectiveness and the quality
instruction through teacher professionalism enhancement. The policies are related to the
influences of historical events and contexts embedded in the interactions of policy players
who have their own arguments, particularly professionalism versus managerialism. The
policies have been driven by right-wing perspectives. As a result, the roles, powers,
functions, and structures of teaching profession have gradually changed. From the
structural analysts, Basil Bernstein and Michel Foucault, teaching profession has become
a system of supervision, compliance, normalization, isomorphism related to the collection
code. The dynamic, complex and multilevel policy implementation need to be analyzed
from a multifocal approach coupled with historical institutional, political, and structural
analysis. This analysis contributes to understanding the changes of teaching profession
resulted from intricate and dynamic interactions embedded in policy environments
causing or influencing policy implementation directly and indirectly. Korean educational
policy analysts, generally, tend to use one of the institutional, the political, and the
structural perspective. Most policy analyses are concerned with the political analysis focused on exploring the political interaction between policy players, presenting policy
issues and alternatives, analyzing the new institutionalism of education policy formation
and implementation process, and influencing of policies on school organization and
teachers apart from the political environment and the political interactions. In this respect,
the multifocal policy analysis will be beneficial to shed light on a multifocal analysis of
Korean educational policies. / text
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UTEXAS/oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-2714 |
| Date | 17 June 2011 |
| Creators | Kim, Kyu Tae |
| Source Sets | University of Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
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