An Exploratory Study on the Restructuring Directions of Jeju Educational Organizations to Vitalize Industrial Education

Abstract

Purpose - The outcomes of school education are more successful when unit schools’ educational capacities and the support and appropriate intervention of educational administration institutions coexist. Therefore, the necessity of restructuring the local educational administration institutions in the macroscopic and microscopic aspects is emphasized. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore the restructuring directions of Jeju Educational Organizations to vitalize Industrial Education in the era of fourth industrial revolution. Research design, data and methodology - For the study literature review and depth interview were employed. First, for literature research, previous studies on the reorganization of schools and educational administrative organizations, data on the reorganization of Jeju Special Self-Governing Provincial Office of Education, and the trends of reorganization of educational support offices and support works of other cities’ offices of education were analyzed. For interview surveys, in-depth interviews were conducted with persons concerned with Jeju Special Self-Governing Provincial Office of Education and persons concerned with educational support offices Result - The municipal and provincial offices of education and educational support offices insisted on the establishment and operation of school districts. The educational support offices presented improvement plans that will enable them to provide efficient administrative services and insisted on the separation or new establishment of large-scaled educational support offices. They proposed to restructure the organization and works of educational support offices. In addition, they suggested that organizations dedicated to school support should be newly established. Conclusion - The major results are as follows: First, the school district system (SDS) should be established successfully. To accomplish the goal, the professional learning community need to be ran prior to establishing the SDS, autonomy of administration, finance and communication in the SDS be increased, and interdependent support system between the current educationcentered system and the SDS be implemented. Second, the school organizations should be reorganized successfully in order to vitalize Industrial Education. To do so, all the stakeholder of schools need to build school culture for Industrial Education vitalization by sharing the student growth-centered vision, reinforce collective responsibility, and renew the role of a principal and a vice principal in each school.