A Study on Changes in Unification Education Policy with Multiple Streams Framework(MSF)

Abstract

The government has continuously made various efforts for unification, and one of them was to create a sense of unification among the people. It is because social and cultural unification is important as well as political and economic unification. The unification education policy has undergone several changes as it has been promoted for decades. This research analyzes the changes in the unification education policy in 2001. For this, the policy change model, Kingdon's Multiple Stream Framework(MSF) was applied. As a result of the problem stream, the reorganization of the world order, the foreign exchange crisis, the economic crisis in North Korea, the expansion of inter-Korean exchanges, and the inter-Korean summit led to the recognition that there was a need for change in unification education. The conditions for change were created with the support of the DJP alliance and the president, the spread of positive awareness of North Korea and unification, and demand for changes in unification education. In the policy stream, the issue of emphasizing security in unification education, the problem of limited autonomy of teachers and students as the subject of education, and the difficulty of taking an open position in discussions on unification, and the disparate or negative aspects of the contents of unification education were emphasized. It has been pointed out that there are problems that make it difficult to form consciousness and that there are problems of neglecting private discussions on unification while emphasizing the superiority of government policies. These three streams became possible when a policy opportunity called the “Inter-Korean Summit” arose in June 2000, and the leadership of the policy was the Ministry of Unification.