청소년 국제체험학습 관련 국내 연구 동향 분석(2015-2022)

Abstract

This study aims to analyze trends in domestic research on international experiential learning targeting youth since 2015, to find out tasks and future directions. For the research trend analysis, 127 papers were selected from KISS using keywords related to ‘area’, ‘type’, ‘scope’. The papers were analyzed utilizing Network Text Analysis. The results were as follows. First, the number of publications, while having shown a significant decrease since 2015, started to increase in 2017. Second, a great number of studies was published by international education-related academies. Third, while ‘overseas volunteer’ was the most prevalent research subject, ‘secondary education’ was the least popular one. Fourth, the cluster analysis result revealed a strong connection between ‘2019’ and ‘overseas volunteer', which the policy ‘Job creation through overseas volunteer’, undertaken since 2018, seemed to have an impact. Fifth, ‘online exchange' shows a low value both in frequency and centrality degree. The implications were as follow. First, since the research about ‘secondary education’ has small numbers, more research needs to be conducted. Second, regarding ‘overseas volunteer’ commonly used for personal interest like ‘building up employment qualification’, further discussions on the purpose and meaning of it are required. Third, more research on ICT-based and ICT blended-related are needed. Lastly, the number of researchers who has continuously studied on ‘international experiential learning’ for youth is not enough regarding that the frequency and keywords of studies have been easily affected by policies and social phenomena. Therefore, constant effort by researchers seems to be needed.