<일반논문> 통일 독일의 교육통합 = Integration of Education System in Reunified Germany

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper discusses the problems which arose during the process of integration of the education system in Germany after the reunification. In East Germany, the west-german school system was introduced instead of the old east-german one. Because the integration was executed exclusively by transplanting the west-german system into the east-german one, the investigation into the actual process of integration and the problems which arose therefrom was focused chiefly on the changes in the New Federal States. To understand properly the problems which arose during the process of integration, we analysed firstly in detail the problems of the education system in the days of German Democratic Republic and then the problems encountered in the integration of education system. As a result of this inquiry, the fact came into view that the teachers, students and parents of the New Federal States evaluate the integration process negatively. The reason of this negative evaluation can be found in the fact that the integration was mainly focused on the one-sided transplantation of west-german system into the New Federal States and on the liquidation of the remnants from the days of German Democratic Republic. Several attempts to reflect critically upon their own past and to construct a new democratic school system were spontaneously made among some east German teachers and professors. But these attempts turned out mostly fruitless because of the breathtakingly speedy process of Reunification and of the thoroughly one-sided integration of east-german education system into the west-german one after the reunification. It becomes evident through this inquiry that new attempts to eliminate the barriers in the mind between east- and west-german residents have to be made for a really desirable integration of education system. To this end, the wishes and needs of east-german residents should be seriously considered. These insights will provide many suggestions about how the integration of education system shall be after the future reunification of Korea.