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A Case Study on Reading Promotion Projects Led by the Korean Education Office Focused on the Project of ‘Ulsan Studnets’ Reading Day~

  • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
  • Abbr : JKLISS
  • 2019, 50(1), pp.225-250
  • DOI : 10.16981/kliss.50.1.201903.225
  • Publisher : Korean Library And Information Science Society
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : February 19, 2019
  • Accepted : March 10, 2019

Youn You-Ra 1 Soon-Young Lee 2

1동의대학교
2부산대학교 문헌정보학과

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ABSTRACT

The study aims to explore ’reading promotion projects’ led by the Korean Education Office and to ponder meaning of the projects, and then to propose the future directions for the projects. To achieve the purpose, the study selected to analyze a reading promotion project called as "Ulsan Students’ Reading Day~" by Ulsan MetropolitanCity Office of Education as a case and sample for the study. The study was designed to use two research methods and phases to explore the project in detail: documentary research and survey method. First, the study collected and analyzed the literatures and contents related to the projects but focused on examining progresses of the project such as situations from the introduction stage to the settlement stage. Second, the study conducted survey to collect data from teachers and students who have experienced the project in elementary, middle and high schools. The detailed contents of questionnaires contain current states of the project in each school, assessment of the project, and requirements for the project.  The study found that the project resulted in positive influence to students’ reading skills and education. In spite of these positive results, it is necessary to develop altenatives to solve some limts in the current states of the project. Reading promotion projects, in long run, need to have profeissional staffs with responsbility for managing the projects, to improve environments for reading promotion, and to encourage students’ voluntary participation to the projects.

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