Promoting Public Policy Pertaining to Career Education as Part of Efforts to Nurture Creative Talented Persons
Ji-yeon Lee, Yun-kyung Jeong, Jong-bum Lee
As part of efforts to nurture creative talented persons for the society of the future, this research suggests an executive policy agenda pertaining to career education. Specifically, this research deals with three key issues pertaining to career education today, all of which are assumed as the keys to promoting creativity via the invigoration of career education. First, a system to manage certification pertaining to career and vocational education is introduced.
Second, guidelines for the development of professionals in the field of career education are developed. Finally, methods of promoting the current college admissions policy as relates to practical issues associated with career education are suggested. In the case of all 3 issues, the researchers diagnosed the current status, identified the related problems, and suggested alternative solutions.
Chapter 1 focuses on the background to the research, purposes, main contents, and methods used to approach the three issues addressed herein.
Chapter 2 reveals the close relationship between creativity and career education. While the first section focuses on the necessity for creativity and the components thereof, and diagnoses elements of the creativity development found within the framework of the national curriculum, the second introduces concepts, purposes, contents, instructional methods and outcomes(competencies) pertaining to career education, and reviews the current state of career education in terms of the national curriculum. Finally, the third section revolves around a comprehensive summary of the relationship between creativity and career education laid out in sections 1 and 2.
Chapter 3 deals with the first issue addressed in this study, namely student certification as far as career and vocational education is concerned. More specifically, the concept and kinds of career education certifications are examined along with the current state of such certifications. Thereafter, the executive ways of this system are introduced. However, before introducing this system, the researchers established the basic direction, subjects, and developed indexes as well as criteria for certification. This chapter concludes with some of the support policies that should be introduced by the central government in order to promote the certification system.
Chapter 4 deals with the second subject tackled by this research, namely the guidelines for
developing professionals in the field of career education. This chapter concludes that there is a need to nurture professionals in the field of career education with the competencies required to promote and develop creativity. This can in turn be achieved via a 'qualification-development - application - retraining' system for career professionals that reflects national policy, the general teacher development-application system, and the educational department of states, cities, and schools.
Chapter 5 is concerned with the college admissions policy as pertains to career education.
This chapter begins by delving into the relationship between the development of creativity, career education, and the college admissions policy, and emphasizes the need for policies that would further enhance this linkage. More specifically, while section 1 identifies the relationship between the development of creativity and college admissions, section 2 summarizes the current status of college admissions policy and breaks down the obstacles to its promotion into seven points. Meanwhile, section 3 introduces the advanced case of U.S.
college admissions policy as pertains to career education and section 4 deals with the qualifications and competencies required by college admissions officers in Korea, the latter of which are derived via delphi methods. Finally, section 5 proposes public policies designed to promote both career education and the current college admissions policy.
The concluding chapter, Chapter 6, integrates the results of the analysis of these three issues, and suggests ways to promote public policy pertaining to career education as part of efforts to cultivate creative talented students at the national, provincial, and individual school level in Korea.
