대학 농업경제학과의 교육현황과 실태 분석

A Study on Current Statue and Problems for Directions of Education in Agricultural Economics

Many forces have challenged to agriculture and educational systems in agricultural college. At present, their main forces are rapid social changes and educational reform including the structural transformation of college system, reorganization of curriculum, diverse recruitment of student, and specialization of university development. The purposes of this study were to analyze the present status and educational problems of agricultural economics in university and to suggest directions for improvement of that in the changing and reforming age. Those objectives were carried out through the literature and mail survey. Ten departments of agricultural economics in university were investigated to collect the educational philosophy and goals, curriculum and instructions, research and other educational activities. Also, to study about the adjustment and values on their major of the students of agricultural economics, data were collected from 752 students at 10 departments of agricultural economics by administering a questionnaire. One of the basic data for curriculum development of department is taxonomy of agricultural economics. Major areas can be classified and organized by the knowledge of structure of taxonomy of agricultural economics. Unfortunately, there is no taxonomy of agricultural economics which will be agreed by agricultural economists and will be useful data for curriculum development. Analyzing the curriculum of 10 departments, we can find that the subject matters of curricular are almost same among the departments of the each university. Most of departments of agricultural economics operate both of undergraduate and graduate program without considering of quality of faculty members, students, and facilities. One of the reasons for lack of characteristics of each department of agricultural economics is that educational objectives of each department are not developed objectively and not described exactly. The educational objectives and goals of agricultural economics should be defined with identity and the justification of agricultural economics set up in the post-industrialized society in changing world. Curriculum of the department of agricultural economics are also reorganized to meet the development of agricultural science and industry, needs of the students, the society and notion.