Abstract
This chapter discusses the Free Semester Program (FSP), an educational policy in South Korea, which aims to incorporate whole-person development agenda in grades 7–9 curricula. First, we introduce the contents of the policy and its history, focusing on how this policy was borrowed, transplanted, and expanded in the Korean educational discourse. Further, we provide an analysis of the result of the policy implementation based on previous literature, focusing on the policy’s intended and unintended effects. The results show that while the idea of whole-person development is desirable, the policy might produce unintended side effects. Discussion about adopting a whole-person development approach in education follows.
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