평생교육 프로그램운영 직무 확인 및 타당화 연구

Identification and Validation of Program Operation Job and Tasks in Lifelong Education

본 연구의 목적은 평생교육 현장에서 이루어지는 프로그램운영과 관련된 평생교육사의 직무를 탐색하고 그 타당성을 확인하고 검증하는 것이었다. 평생교육 프로그램운영 직무의 확인은 선행연구 및 문헌, 비구조화 면담, 경험채집방법을 적용하여 도출하였으며, 확인된 직무를 유형화시키고 타당성을 검토하기 위해 요인분석을 실시하였다. 그 결과 프로그램운영 계획, 프로그램 마케팅, 프로그램 예산관리, 고객 관리 및 지원, 프로그램 통합적 관리, 프로그램 준비, 관계조성, 학습자의 멘토 및 지원, 강사관리 및 지원, 평가 및 사후관리, 교수-학습 실행 등 11개의 책무와 여기에 속하는 각각의 과업들의 타당성이 실증적으로 확인되었다. 이상의 연구결과는 프로그램운영 계획, 프로그램 경영, 프로그램 실행 등 3개의 이론적 관점에서 평생교육사가 수행해야 할 프로그램운영 직무를 새롭게 재해석해야 할 뿐만 아니라 평생교육사의 프로그램운영 직무 수행역량을 향상시키기 위해 본 연구에서 도출된 프로그램운영 책무와 과업에 근거하여 체계적인 교육적 지원과 노력이 필요함을 함의한다.

As the contents of program in lifelong education has improved in quality recently, the program operation is increasingly emphasized as an alternative factor that the learner satisfies with program. However, the program operation has been considered as only a very limited and simple technical job, nevertheless it is a core competency of the lifelong educator professionalism. The objectives of this study were to review the concepts and the theories related on program operation, to draw the lifelong educator s duties and tasks which have been performed in the process of program operation, and to prove the validation of the program operation model composed of the related duties and tasks. The findings of this study were as follows. First, the job model of the program operation with 66 tasks identified in this study was proved statistically to be validation as one unit factor by exploratory technique of factor analysis. Second, the validation of the following 11 program operation duties was empirically assessed and proved by confirmative technique of factor analysis: program operation plan , program marketing , management of program budget , customer management and support , integrated program management , program preparation , relationship establishment , mentoring and supporting of learner , managing and supporting of instructor , evaluation and following , and teaching-learning practice . Based on above the findings, The major implications are that the lifelong education program operation can be interpretate newly in terms of three theories of program operation plan, program management, and program implementation, and the lifelong educator s professional of program operation get to be developed systematically based on the finding duties and tasks.