어린이집 평가제도와 보육서비스 질 간의 비정합성에 대한 연구

A Study on the Disparity between the Child Care Center Evaluation System and the Quality of Child Care Service

(Purpose) This study analyzed whether there were possible institutional disparity between the child care center evaluation system and the quality of child care services in Korea. (Design/methodology/approach) The purpose of this study is to recognize practicable fallacy of inconsistency among policy stakeholders during implementation of child care center evaluation system and suggests available resolution. In this regard, we reviewed the evaluation system of Korea mainly focus on literature research with various grounds. (Findings) According to our analysis, there were two major reason to bring the disparity between the evaluation system and the quality of child care service; ① the discrepancy between the policy characteristics of child care and evaluation ② the divergency among stakeholders in the system and the dissimilarity of accountability among them. (Research implications or Originality) As managerial problems consistently happnes, this study analyzed the critical factors of conducting childcare service in Korea. These findings have practical implications suggested that diagnostic discussion of system should be included in the evaluation process, various policymakers must apprehend the role of evaluation system and its consequences.