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Survey on opinions about the liberal arts education at universities in Korea, China and Japan

  • The Japanese Language Association of Korea
  • Abbr : JLAK
  • 2020, (64), pp.71-88
  • DOI : 10.14817/jlak.2020.64.71
  • Publisher : The Japanese Language Association Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature
  • Received : March 30, 2020
  • Accepted : May 27, 2020
  • Published : June 20, 2020

Geugchol Bang 1 Hoon-Ho Kim 2

1순천대학교
2順天大學校

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ABSTRACT

Survey on opinions about the liberal arts education at universities in Korea, China and Japan This study conducted a survey on opinions of Korean, Chinese and Japanese university students about the liberal arts education. As the survey methodology, it distributed the questionnaire, utilized the statistical analysis program IBM22.0 and analyzed results based on the five-point and five-step Likert scales. As a result, we were able to identify similarities and differences in the liberal arts education at universities in the three countries. Based on the findings of this study, we would like to make practical suggestions for the improvement of the liberal arts education as follows: 1. It is necessary to create a support system for the national Liberal arts education based on the needs of students. 2. In order to switch from the liberal arts education to the student participation classes, the enrolment needs to be fewer than 30 students. 3. It is necessary to create a bachelor's system, teaching methods and evaluation methods that reflect the trend of the times. 4. In order to improve creativity and thinking skills, it is necessary to create a classroom and a learning environment for the convergence education. 5. It is necessary to consider students' definitional characteristics and adopt the active learning, PBL, etc. into the liberal foreign language classes. 6. Each of the three countries has different evaluation styles and preferred priorities. Therefore, the evaluation method needs to be reconstructed in conjunction with the effectiveness and quality of education. In order to realize the above six points, professors, the main constituent of university education, should make efforts, and institutions in charge of the liberal arts education should support the academic administration and improve the academic system. In the future, I would like to make a new model for the liberal arts education based on results of a survey of the learners' opinions on the cultural education.

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