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Changes direction of Korean Multicultural Education Policy

한국 다문화 교육정책의 변화 방향 모색

  • Received : 2017.09.20
  • Accepted : 2017.10.13
  • Published : 2017.10.31

Abstract

Korean society has begun to transition toward a multicultural society, and the rate of change is increasing. If so, is our society ready to meet this change of society? It is true that Korean society has been dominated by the paradigm of 'monoethnicity', and traditionally has been regarded as a virtue to maintain this view. However, it is worth noting that isolated single cultures have historically met a disastrous end. On the contrary, people who have adapted their culture and style have enjoyed prosperity. Korean society has hovered between embracing and rejecting the flow of change, and has finally accepted them to choose the way to go on a multicultural society living together. However, it seems that the changes in policy have not kept pace with recent changes in society. Despite the fact that the most efficient way to change perception is to establish and implement appropriate educational policies promoting multiculturalism, most education in Korean society has focused on the closed form of education, for the influx people, not having been made proper education for most of Korean people who should actually accept them and get along with them. Therefore, they have been striving for an assimilated viewpoint that simply get it transformed into Koreanized, not understanding and accepting them as they are. However, this type of education cannot lead a Korean multicultural society in the right direction. We objectively examined the reality of Korean society facing this crisis and presented policy changes regarding multicultural education through examining the case of France, which experienced a similar crisis prior.We are going to present the direction of change in multicultural education through the case of France which has experienced similar crisis before us by examining the reality of Korean society facing the crisis like this.

본 논문은 21세기에 들어서면서 본격적인 다문화사회로 진입한 한국사회에 대해 살펴보고자 했다. 우리의 의문은 '우리 사회가 이렇게 변화되는 사회를 맞아들일 준비가 되어있는가?'에서 시작되었다. 기존 한국사회는 '단일민족'이라는 패러다임이 사회 전반을 지배하고 있었고 그것을 유지하는 것이 크나큰 미덕쯤으로 여겨왔던 것이 사실이다. 그렇지만 역사적으로 고립된 단일문화는 언제나 비참한 최후를 맞이해왔음에 주목할 필요가 있다. 또한, 반대로 다른 사회나 민족의 문화와 양식을 적극적으로 수용하고 변형시켜온 민족은 언제나 번영을 누려왔다. 한국사회도 이러한 변화의 흐름에 동참하느냐 배척하느냐의 갈림길에서 고민해왔고 결국 그들을 받아들이고 함께 생활하는 다문화사회로 나아가는 것을 선택했다. 하지만 정책적 선택과 함께 이루어져야 할 인식 변화에는 상대적으로 큰 관심을 기울이지 않았던 것으로 보인다. 인식 변화를 위한 가장 효율적인 방법이 다문화에 대한 올바른 교육정책을 수립하고 실행하는 것이었음에도 불구하고 그동안 한국사회에서 행해졌던 대부분의 교육은 유입되는 사람들에 대한 폐쇄적 형태의 교육에 집중되어 있었으며 정작 그들을 받아들이고 함께 생활해야할 대다수 한국인들에 대한 교육은 제대로 이루어지지 않았던 것이다. 따라서 그들을 이해하고 그들을 있는 그대로의 모습으로 받아들이지 못한 채 단순히 그들을 한국인화 시키는 동화주의적 관점에 매진해왔던 터다. 하지만 이러한 교육방식은 점차 확대되어가는 한국 다문화사회를 올바른 방향으로 인도할 수 없다. 우리는 이처럼 위기에 직면해있는 한국사회의 현실을 객관적으로 살펴보는 것을 시작으로 우리보다 앞서 비슷한 위기를 경험한 바 있는 프랑스의 경우를 통해 다문화교육의 변화 방향을 제시해보고자 한다.

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