This study was carried out to find ways to improve the educational autonomy system of Korea. It analyzes the historical development process of educational autonomy system of Korea, It is shown that the structure of educational autonomy system created ...
This study was carried out to find ways to improve the educational autonomy system of Korea. It analyzes the historical development process of educational autonomy system of Korea, It is shown that the structure of educational autonomy system created during the U. S. Military Rule was not stipulated in "the Education Law" enacted in 1949. It is also shown that the basic principle of educational autonomy adopted at that time was not the one existed in the educational autonomy system itself, but that the one employed by the U. S. military authorities in the process of decentralizing the centralized educational system of the Japanese Colonial Rule.
The educational autonomy systems of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan are compared and it is argued that there does not exist any one settled rule in those educational autonomy systems. It shows that the educational autonomy system of each country was developed reflecting its own soil and social structures. The paper finds a good model in the recent educational autonomy reform of the United Kingdom to improve the educational autonomy system of Korea. In London the Mayor has the power over most of the general administrations including the police department and the fire department, but it has a separate system to carry out educational administration. It emphasizes the need to look over carefully whether the union of general and educational administration is really necessary in Korea when the union is considered taking the examples of foreign countries.
Great heeds are paid on the major problems of educational autonomy of Korea such as the duplication and dualism of decision making process, separation from the general administration and independence of educational administration, union of local educational and financial administration, and the self rule of residents.
Major problems of the educational autonomy system of Korea are clarified as e dualism of decision making process, separation from the general administration, the union of educational and general administration. It is emphasized that the recognition of these problems should be approached by reviewing how efficiently the educational administration will be carried out, not by any stereo-typed principles or unproven examples of foreign countries.