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The Roles of Higher Education in the Age of Lifelong Learning and the Search for the Seeking of Stepwise Education method: Reading Education as an Example

  • The Journal of General Education
  • 2022, (19), pp.65~86
  • DOI : 10.24173/jge.2022.04.19.3
  • Publisher : Da Vinci Mirae Institute of General Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education > Field of Education > General Education
  • Received : March 20, 2022
  • Accepted : April 20, 2022
  • Published : April 30, 2022

Kim Sung Yeon 1

1세명대학교

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ABSTRACT

Because higher education in Korea is grounded on the competitive system, it is limited to accept social demand for adult learners or lifelong education as welfare for learning or public goods. In 2016, as part of the government's project to support the lifelong education system in universities, Ewha Womans University installed a college for adult education. At that time, the internal members opposing to joining in the project continued demonstrations severely, which shows the limitation distinctly. To resolve side effects associated with the excessive social cost required for college entrance and the ordering of universities, the opportunity of higher education should not be ‘obtained through competition’ but be provided supportively when demanded. Although the idea of higher education as compulsory education is rather strange to us, in the US, presidential candidates, Obama and Biden, came up with the pledge to change college(technical college) education to free education repeatedly. Considering the reality in Korea that about 70% of high schoolers enter universities already and the Ministry of Education evaluates, authenticates, supports, and inspects private universities, too, we may find that compulsory higher education is no wonder. If higher education is changed to be provided to those in need from the perspective of welfare for learning, universities will be the field for realizing equal opportunity and alleviating polarization, and it will be possible to actualize true society for lifelong learning. What higher education should focus on to realize society for lifelong learning is the desirable connection of different educations in the life cycle: elementary education-secondary education, higher education, and adult education. If secondary education and higher education that existed separately in the past come to be associated with the prior and subsequent education, it will be needed to examine the achievements of prior education and plan the subsequent education. In this standpoint, it is important to investigate the current system of secondary education and decide the roles of higher education. Focusing on ‘Reading’, the subject positioned in a unique place of the secondary curriculum, this study has explored what to be considered to connect secondary education and higher education. This sort of exploration can be the foundation to connect secondary education and higher education organically within the lifelong education system that is being established rapidly.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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