공업교육의 문제점과 활성화 방안

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study was carried out to suggest some recommendations for the government to establish policies on the vocational high school in Korea. The research method was based on the literature review. At present the vocational schools are facing critical problems, among them the shortage of candidate students and the low level of entry behaviors are very serious. Therefore a lot of schools are encourage students to prepare entrance examination for the universities and colleges. They lost the goals and identities based on the vocational education foundations. The researcher recommend the government and schools to turn around for the original standpoint which they provide industries competent skilled worker. In particular they need to emphasize the specialized subjects including practices mainly in stead of liberal subjects. The researcher also recommend them to hand over the curriculum development role to the teachers and give them maximum flexibility to meet the changing industries` needs. The teachers must to have a chance to be trained within the industries during the relatively long term, 3-6months at least. To cope with the present discouraged environments the president should to have keen interests on the vocational schools and the government to support sufficient budget for practice class. It might also cautiously consider the possibility to reduce the number of technical high schools.