교사가 인식하는 특성화 고등학교 교육의 문제점 = Teacher's Perceptions of Problems in Specialized Vocational High School Education

국문 초록 (Abstract)

이 연구의 목적은 특성화 고등학교에 근무하는 교사가 특성화 고등학교에 근무하면서 인식하는 문제점을 파악하고，특성화 고둥학교가 나아가야할 방향을 제시하는데 있다. 이 연구는 교사가 인식하는 문제점을 파악하기 위해 델파이 방법으로 연구되었다.
델파이 패널은 특성화 고등학교로 신설 및 전환된 지 5년 이상 된 학교의 특성화 또는 실과 부장 교사 18명으로 구성되었다. 3차의 델파이 조사가 이루어 졌다. 1차 델파이 질문지는 개방형으로 교사가 인식하는 특성화 고등학교의 문제점을 자유롭게 기술하도록 하였다. 2차 댈파이 질문지는 1차 델파이 조사를 통해 얻은 문제점 54개에 대해 전문계 고등학교의 입장과 특성화 고등학교의 입장 두 가지 측면에서 문제의 심각성을 체크하도록 하였고 추가적인 의견도 들었다. 3차 텔파이 조사는 2차 델파이 조사 결과 얻은 33개의 문제점에 대해 사분위수를 제시하고 심각성을 체크하도록 하였다. 이 때 사분 위수를 벗어나게 되면 그 이유를 적고，추가적인 의견도 받았다. 그 결과 29개의 문제점이 도출되었으며 그 중 심각성이 높은 13개의 문제점은 학생，교사，교육과정，인식 둥에 관한 것은 아래와 같다. 학생과 관련한 문제점: ① 학생들의 대부분이 진학을 희망한다. ② 전반적인 학생의 가정환경 열악하다. ③ 우수한 학생을 확보하기 어렵다. 교사와 관련한 문제점: ① 교사의 행정업무가 과다하다. ② 우수한 특성화 분야 교원을 확보하기 어렵다. ③ 전공교과 교사의 수업시수가 과다하다. 교육과정과 관련한 문제점: ① 학생의 다양성을 충족할 수 있는 특별교육과정 운영을 위한 예산이 부족하다 ② 특성화 프로그램 벤치마킹 대상이 부족하다. 인식과 관련한 문제점: ① 직업교육에 대한 사회 전반적인 인식이 부족하다. ② 특성화 교육에 대한 학부모의 인식이 부족하다. ③ 특성화 교육에 대한 중학교 교사의 인식이 부족하다 기타 문제점: ① 지속적인 지원이 미흡하다. ② 기초기능 함양의 전문 프로그램 제공처가 부족하다.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study was to identify the major problems that teachers perceived in implementing specialized vocational high school education, Specialized vocational high schools are promoted as the main national policy to improve vocational education and strongly supported by the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development. The Delphi technique for obtaining group consensus was employed to achieve the objective of this study. A panel was composed of 18 head teachers as expert participants selected purposively from 22 specialized vocational high schools which were established over 5 years after transferring as a specialized system. Each panel participant received questionnaires to fill-up through e-mail and responded to it. Three sets of questionnaires were prepared by the researchers. The first questionnaire was an open style to express freely each one's opinion on problems related to specialized vocational education. The second and the third questionnaires composed of questions on scale using the Likert type. Several problems were identified, Problems related to specialized vocational high school students were as follows: ① Most of the students want to go to college/university instead of entering the workplace, ② Generally, they are from a socioeconomically disadvantaged background. ③ It is difficult to attract talented students, which has been a chronic problem for vocational high schools, Problems related to teachers were as follows: ① There are excessive clerical work for teachers ② It is difficult to recruit qualified and competent teachers for the specialized areas ③ Teachers are over-burdened with teaching too many hours of vocational classes, Problems related to the curriculum were as follows: ① There are few programs to benchmark specialized vocational education programs and ② There are no systematic assistance to improve basic academic skills of the students, Problems related to recognition were the following: ① Specialized vocational education carries an unfavorable image, ② There is a lack of parents' recognition of the specialized vocational education and ③ Middle school teachers do not have sufficient information or hold unfavorable perception of specialized vocational schools. Other problems identified include ① There are inadequate financial resources to operate the specialized education programs particularly in coping with student's diversified needs and ② There is a lack of continuous governmental support for the specialized vocational education programs.

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