Despite a great concern with various education policies on the part of people, educational groups, and educational policy makers, there has been rarely a study to systematically illuminate how the adopted education policies have been implemented in re...
Despite a great concern with various education policies on the part of people, educational groups, and educational policy makers, there has been rarely a study to systematically illuminate how the adopted education policies have been implemented in reality. For this reason, the present study aimed i) to delineate and design a theoretical model for educational policy implementation, and ii) with this, to seek means for successful implementation of education policies.
For this purpose, various concepts, types, and systems concerning educational policy implementation, affecting factors, and practical educational policies were analyzed. As for the analytical framework, Ripley and Franklin's classification of distributive policy, competitive regulatory policy, protective regulatory policy, redistributive policy and Nakamura and Smallwood's classification of classical technocrats, instructed delegates, bargainers, discretionary experimenters, bureaucratic entrepreneur were consulted. And for the judgment of success or failure of implementation, policies such as high school equalization, self-governing system of education, and college accreditation system were, as cases, analyzed along the two criteria of contents and procedures. The result is as following.
As for the policies of high school equalization and self-governing system of education, it can be said that it is not easy to conclude their success or failure in implementation, for the abstractness of their objectives, the subjectivity of satisfaction on the part of the affected, and their long-term effects.
However, as for the college accreditation policy, it can be judged that successful policy implementation is under way, since its implementation can be evaluated according to both the qualitative and the quantitative criteria which were determined by Korean Council University Education.
As conclusion, it is suggested that we need to look at carefully the changes in rank and file units of education, and that for more adaptable implementation, we need to elevate the abilities of those agencies in the uttermost front, above all. For this, trainings for these implementing agencies personnel need to be intensified.