2011, Vol.18, No.1

Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.61

pISSN : 1225-8539 / eISSN : 2671-5171
https://journal.kci.go.kr/japs

This paper has an ultimate purpose of searching the possibility of making the East-Sea Rim Region as an Ecological Community for the regionalization of the East-Sea Rim area. Given the purpose of this paper, I focused on looking into the following three issues. At first, I critically consider the contemporary ecological cooperation and practical activities for collaborating in the East Sea Rim region. Secondly, I examine the existing theories of ecological discourses, and find that there are some problems in applying these ecological discourses to the East Sea Rim regional studies. Finally, I try to find how to internalize ecological solidarity in this region and to suggest some practical plans for the solidarity. In conclusion, I emphasize on internalizing the regional characteristics of the East-Sea Rim area and on, in practice, containing the universal tenets of ecological community into the process of transforming the East-Sea Rim Region to a regional ecological community. In order to practice these conceptual findings in actual reality, I suggest to internalizing solidarity of the region with bioregional narratives and to conduct solidarity in actual reality by promoting workers' collaborating consciousness in terms of transnational consumers.

This article focuses on the State Development and Planning Commission, which plays a role of ‘pilot agency’ in China, where the state-led development strategies have been adopted. This includes the Commission’s role in long-term planning and economy policymaking, as well as the mechanism how it has coordinated the macro-economic policies with other related governmental departments, especially the leadership of Chinese Communist Party, the supreme policymaking institution. For this purpose, firstly, this study will discuss how the Chinese leadership has recognized and modified the developmental state model in East Asia. And then, it will try to understand the role of state in the reform period from the view of developmental state theory, which can be followed by analysis of decision-making process and planning system of Chinese government focusing on the role of SDPC as a pilot agency.

The purpose of this paper is to share the results of a study that focused on the trends regarding the development and evaluation of civic education programs. To arrive at this aim, the researcher dealt with the following themes: development of educational programs and model of factors, curriculum and selection of contents, concept and characteristics of program evaluation, problems related to program evaluation, school development planning and self-evaluation, and cases of development and evaluation of civic education program. The bottom line of this article can be formulated as follows:① In program development we have to clarify the relevant factors, make a decision considering those factors, and keep in mind a set of action process including evaluation of aspects of both process and consequence. ② Because evaluation of educational programs is not a lab experiment in a strict sense, it seems to be desirable to consider a process-accompanying or formative evaluation as a better alternative. ③ Evaluation of civic education programs can be expected, after all, to contribute to consolidating the fundament of legitimacy and to ameliorating quality assurance. ④ Based on the two cases of development and evaluation of civic education program, we can identify the plausibility and usefulness of analysis and assessment of questionnaire results in the sense of above-mentioned process-accompanying or formative evaluation.