In Korea, neo-liberalism and globalization has been continued since 1990s. The realm of education has also undergone the open education whirlpool since 1990s. The purpose of this thesis is to grasp way of the state's education control appeared in the...
In Korea, neo-liberalism and globalization has been continued since 1990s. The realm of education has also undergone the open education whirlpool since 1990s. The purpose of this thesis is to grasp way of the state's education control appeared in the open education policy. The problems established to accomplish this purpose are as follows. Firstly, What are the characteristics of the state in late capitalism and the background of the open education policy? Secondly, What are ways of the state's education control appeared in the open education policy?
The conclusions based on the Offe's selectiveness of the state in late capitalism and the background of the open education policy are as follows. First, the dominant discussion of the Korea government's policy in 1990s is neo-liberalism but the characteristics of state is late capitalism. Moreover the state present subordinate characteristics. Second, it exists the same quality between the open education and neo-liberalism. Third, the open education movement proceeds from civilian's spontaneous activity in late 1980s to the government's policy in 1990s. The state selected open education as the government's policy to extend neo-liberalism ideology.
According to four-levels filter system of Offe's political selectiveness, it can be concluded as follows. State's education control may be considered in the aspect of method and characteristics. First, in the level of structure the government made institutional foundation. which gives the relative autonomy to the rights of the capital and citizen society through the change of system.
Second, in the level of ideology, it had not only the teachers receive the open education without criticism, by the encouragement of learning policy, the trail of the open education, the development, of materials and so on, but also informs the teachers of the merit only of ideology of neo-liberalism.
Third, in the level of process, it participates in proceeding that the policy of open education is made and carried out, so only the merit of the open education is selected, though there are many faults in the open education.
Fourth, in the level of repression, it makes the repressive situation all sorts of institution or teachers must so that do open education by that select superior institution or human resources through physical device - like that synthetic assessment of educational institution, public subscription, and various competitions - and allow financial support or personnel benefit.
Four-levels filter system operate not only separately each other but also conjointly. Also, each thing acts himself every time he needs. In this processing, the state select and exclude properly by net of neo-liberalism after systematize a filtering system that is a series of good construction.
Next, in the aspect of characteristics, the Korean educational situation in 1990s switches over from centralizing state's control by fascism to decentralizing state's control that gives relative and autonomy in education under limited state's control. Centralizing state's control is the directly and heteronomous, but decentralizing state's control is indirectly and permitted autonomy by influence of capital. In background the change of characteristics, capital accumulation under the capitalistic system is hidden and the state selects open education as a means of justification.