This study was concerned with examining characteristics and structure of educational ideology which was represented in the spirit of university foundation in Korea.
This study examined the educational ideology in terms of traditional view and contemp...
This study was concerned with examining characteristics and structure of educational ideology which was represented in the spirit of university foundation in Korea.
This study examined the educational ideology in terms of traditional view and contemporary view of university. The major research method was bulletin analysis with 144 universities and survey with 1,593 college students. In particular, the spirits of university foundation were classified into three types in relation to the 108th provision of Education Act.
lt was found that the percentage of universities with the original spirit of foundation came up to 55.5%. Most of educational ideologies of universities with the original spirit of foundation were closely related with emotional and personal characteristics and were too abstract to have any practical and useful meaning. But according to the survey with college students, the Korean university has been managed on the basis of the view of university as a means of social upward mobility and has practical and useful meaning. The contradiction between educational ideology represented in the spirit of university foundation and that extracted from survey means that the spirit of university foundation isn't based on the actual situation.