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A Study on Enhancement of Marriage Immigrants’ Scholastic Achievement Education from the Perspective of Life-long Education. - Focused on Qualification Examination

  • Multi-cultural Society and Education Studies
  • 2021, 8(), pp.87-114
  • DOI : 10.22957/mses.8..202108.87
  • Publisher : Institute for multicultural studies
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : July 1, 2021
  • Accepted : August 18, 2021
  • Published : August 30, 2021

Lee, yunjin 1

1안양대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

This study started from cognition about the significance of enhancing scholastic achievement of marriage immigrants from the perspective of life-long education. The purpose of this study was to examine the existing status and cases of the scholastic achievement educational programs for marriage immigrants and derive future issues. In the era of multiculturalism, marriage immigrants are also an important subject of life-long education and hence, it was noteworthy to discuss needs of reviewing the significance of qualification examination to them. The study confirmed that not only the enhancement of academic level of education for self-realization, children's education and employment is significant to marriage immigrants but integration in to Korean society as an important building block is also substantial for them. Furthermore, the study revealed that currently, the education of qualification examination for marriage immigrants is based on social integration and adult literacy education, however, a detailed discussion about each features and varied points are needed. In a survey conducted in this study, the cases of education for qualification examination in Eumseong County(Eumseong-gun) showed that marriage immigrants in their 20s and 30s who emigrated to Korea and lived between 2 to 5 years have highest participation in the education for qualification examination. Moreover, the higher the Korean language proficiency(TOPIK level 4 or higher) of marriage immigrants, the higher the passing rate of the qualification examination was noted. Henceforth, as a follow-up study, a customized and in-depth education plans considering various situations for enhancing the academic level of marriage immigrants through Korean language/multicultural education interface shall be conducted.

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