Abstract
This study analyzes the requests by the people-in-charge in industries and presents methods to improve field practice systems for technical highschools. Requests from 43 industries in Korea were analyzed. The results about improvement methods for field practices are as follows: First of all, the study suggests the same educational curriculums and number of courses for the 10th grade (National Manditory and Basic Curriculum) and the 11th grade (Elective Program) both in general technical highschools and in "2+1 system" technical highschools. The school offers a dual program: completion and continuation curriculums. In the 12th grade, students choose their careers. Students can participate in field practice as a completion education. In other words, the same curriculums are operated in 10th and 11th grades for students who want to go to college and to get jobs. The different curriculum is arranged for the 12th grade. This system can allow flexibility in curriculum operation for students who want to change their careers or who drop in the middle of filed practice. Students who come back to schools in the middle of field practice are asked to complete technical courses and evaluated like in general technical highschools.