The purpose of this study is to investigate discourses and characteristics of the policy of the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology for children from multicultural families (2006-2009). In other words, this is an attempt to analyze the visi...
The purpose of this study is to investigate discourses and characteristics of the policy of the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology for children from multicultural families (2006-2009). In other words, this is an attempt to analyze the vision and orientation of national multicultural education policy. The main results are as follows. Multicultural discourse can be divided into five categories: culture-based discourse, paternalistic sympathy-based discourse, global human capital-based discourse, identity-based discourse, and human rights-based discourse. Cultural understanding and paternalistic sympathy are the predominant discourses that constitute the basis of understanding of multicultural society and multicultural education policy in South Korea. Much of the discourse takes place without consideration for the current social values and structure. In this study, based on these results, we give some suggestions to improve the current situation of multicultural educational policy as an effort to build a multicultural society.