Directions and Assignments of Educational Welfare in Korea

우리나라 교육복지의 방향과 과제

The study is to examine the actual conditions and problems of educational welfare which is a part of social welfare and to offer its future directions and things to do. First of all, education has been considered to be part of social welfare in developed countries for a long time and it has been used the same as school educational welfare. These days Korea is confronted with increasing needs of educational welfare caused by emphasis of manpower, appearance of new poor class after IMF, handing down poverty to their children, absence of public education and educational fever, stress of life long learning and extending needs of students' social welfare service. In advanced countries compared to Korea, people perceive education as an equal opportunity. To reach this thesis, various efforts have been making in terms of manpower development such as reform of related laws, financial and official support, offering of parental skills and protecting children for the disadvantaged, dispatching school social workers and overall life improvement. The subjects and age of educational welfare are also diverse ranging from poor families and pre school children to general public and adults. On the other hand, Korea lacks related laws and financial support that are supposed to enforce educational welfare systematically. Also integrated and professional services are not often available due to the lack of cooperation between related agencies. Therefore, government's role and responsibility should be defined clearly in the future directions of educational welfare in Korea. For this, it is needed to establish related laws and build a concrete financial and executive interrelationship. Also every person should be a target of educational welfare putting priorities on the disadvantaged. A lot of efforts should be made to achieve things mentioned above. Multi-dimensional approach intertwined with education, welfare and labour, establishment of cooperation system between related agencies, reinforcement of life long learning, extension of free education including infants and toddlers, and offering financial support to the poor are a few among these efforts. Finally, institutionalization of school social welfare and improvement school facilities are strongly recommended to get to the right track of educational welfare.

본 연구는 사회복지와 교육복지와의 관계를 정립한 후 우리나라 교육복지의 현 실태와 문제점을 파악하고 향후 우리나라 교육복지의 방향과 과제에 대해 살펴본 것이다. 이미 선진국에서는 교육을 사회적 평등장치로 인식하고 인적자본 개발이라는 관점에서 다차원적 접근을 행하고 있으며 학교사회사업가가 배치되어 있으나 우리나라는 교육복지를 체계적으로 추진할 관련법이 미비하고 행 재정적 지원체계가 확립되어 있지 않다. 또한 관련 조직간의 연계, 협력이 부족하고 복지, 교육, 문화가 연계된 통합적, 전문적 서비스가 제공되지 못하고 있다. 우리나라 교육복지의 방향과 과제는 교육복지체제의 구축을 위한 국가의 기능과 책임을 명확히 해야 하며 권리, 투자적 차원에서 접근해야 하며 이를 위한 관련법의 제정 및 행, 재정적 체계가 확립되어야 한다. 또한 교육복지는 모든 사람들을 대상으로 하되 교육취약계층에 최우선 순위를 두어야 하며 그 내용에 있어서는 교육의 기회에서부터 교육의 과정, 결과까지의 평등을 포함해야 할 필요가 있다. 그리고 교육, 복지, 노동이 연계된 다차원적 접근과 관련기관의 긴밀한 협력체계가 구축되어야 하며 평생교육이 강화되어야 한다.