학교교육의 재개념화

Reconceptualization of Schooling : Reforming Selection System

The aim of this article is to question the present schooling system and culture, especially selection system in Korea and to suggest an alternative schooling system resulting from reforming selection system in Korean universities. First, deep-rooted myths in educational practice and culture in Korea was revealed and made clear, which have come from the present selection system. The concept, ‘waste’ was suggested and used to analyse several limping educational practices from those myths. This article tries to consider a school as a kind of educational structure of‘waste’, and to identify ‘waste as absence of association’ as well as physical and relational wastes. Next, this article tries to analyse some related literature on selection system in Korea and reflect on the concept, ‘selection’ from those literature, and goes to reconceptualize the schooling system in Korea. For this, ‘relational’ point of view (‘process’ point of view), which consider school not as a sort of institution but as context planned for meaning exchange between teacher and student, was first asserted. Second, new concepts about selection were suggested, not as ranking on a single line, that is classifying and selecting, but as digging out (excavating) and revealing every student's own capabilities.