역량기반 교양교육은 교양인을 길러낼 수 있을까?

Can the competence-based liberal education nurture cultured person?

The purpose of this study was to explore the concept of competency-based liberal education and discuss the issues related to how competency-based liberal education can impact on the nature of liberal education. The results of the study are summarized as follows. First, competency-based liberal education can lead to the neglect of theoretical or academic knowledge by making people think that they can replace liberal arts with arts of competence. Second, competency-based liberal education is inherently based on competencies that involve elements of performance(or behavior) and constantly decomposes competencies into aspects of (detailed) competencies or skills. Therefore, it could undermine the nature of liberal education by promoting behaviorism and reductionist approaches. Third, competence has been related to job performance, and it brings about job orientation by trying to derive competence based on recent industrial or social needs, so it subverts the nature of liberal education. Fourth, it commits category errors by indiscriminately involving moral aspects such as friendship and caring that are difficult to include in traditional liberal education. After all, current competency-based liberal education could certainly have a negative impact on the nature or identity of liberal education.