@article{ART002486237},
author={HONG, Sung Ki},
title={The Social Background of Strengthening General Education},
journal={The Journal of General Education},
issn={2465-7581},
year={2019},
number={9},
pages={61-90},
doi={10.24173/jge.2019.06.9.3}
TY - JOUR
AU - HONG, Sung Ki
TI - The Social Background of Strengthening General Education
JO - The Journal of General Education
PY - 2019
VL - null
IS - 9
PB - Da Vinci Mirae Institute of General Education
SP - 61
EP - 90
SN - 2465-7581
AB - Over the past several decades, majority of universities have increased excessive number of majors within their education curriculum and instruction. Even so, the percentage of the performance of General Education has remained as a very low percentage, comparing to other academic majors in any degree programs and curriculums of the universities in South Korea. The tendency to improve the educational infrastructure of General Education in the past 10 years has been infamously developed to meet with basic minimum requirements of the korean government's mandatory evaluation policy and not much of meaningful changes have happened in spite of the attempt for an improvement. Moreover, many professors who are not affiliated to the general education department have been insisting for more sufficient and even excessive resources, to empower their major education system. As a result, these social phenomenons have caused further delays in the process of the Normalization of General Education.
Currently, however, college graduates in South Korea have a percentage of college-major-match degree about 50%, and considering the employment rate of university graduates is 77%, the utilization rate of the majors is only 37%. In particular, the employment retention rate is considered to be a very low percentage, which is 10% for the same job over 10 years, and 30% for 3 years. Furthermore, this low college-major-match and academic major utilization rates will decrease in South Korea when especially the service industry becomes as the one of the largest industries in the future.
Therefore, it is necessary for both universities and the government in South Korea to begin to redeem and to fundamentally redefine the undergraduate education, and establish the concrete foundation to assure that the general education is essential notion of both upper and lower divisions of undergraduate studies and ultimately become the core curriculum of universities in South Korea.
KW - strengthening of general education;major centered resource distribution;redefining of the undergraduate education;college major match;major utilization rate
DO - 10.24173/jge.2019.06.9.3
ER -
HONG, Sung Ki. (2019). The Social Background of Strengthening General Education. The Journal of General Education, 9, 61-90.
HONG, Sung Ki. 2019, "The Social Background of Strengthening General Education", The Journal of General Education, no.9, pp.61-90. Available from: doi:10.24173/jge.2019.06.9.3
HONG, Sung Ki "The Social Background of Strengthening General Education" The Journal of General Education 9 pp.61-90 (2019) : 61.
HONG, Sung Ki. The Social Background of Strengthening General Education. 2019; 9 : 61-90. Available from: doi:10.24173/jge.2019.06.9.3
HONG, Sung Ki. "The Social Background of Strengthening General Education" The Journal of General Education no.9(2019) : 61-90.doi: 10.24173/jge.2019.06.9.3
HONG, Sung Ki. The Social Background of Strengthening General Education. The Journal of General Education, 9, 61-90. doi: 10.24173/jge.2019.06.9.3
HONG, Sung Ki. The Social Background of Strengthening General Education. The Journal of General Education. 2019; 9 61-90. doi: 10.24173/jge.2019.06.9.3
HONG, Sung Ki. The Social Background of Strengthening General Education. 2019; 9 : 61-90. Available from: doi:10.24173/jge.2019.06.9.3
HONG, Sung Ki. "The Social Background of Strengthening General Education" The Journal of General Education no.9(2019) : 61-90.doi: 10.24173/jge.2019.06.9.3
