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Leapfrog in Education
Workforce:
Ju-Ho LeeKDI School of Public Policy and Management
South Korea’s Experience and Education Workforce Initiative
South Korea’s achievement of both sustained economic development and democracy is mainly due to its investment in people.
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Korea’s enrollment rates increase: good example of progressive universalism
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Teachers were at the heart of the remarkable performance of Korean students.
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South Korea leapfrogged in 3rd Industrial Revolution, but is now facing daunting challenges in 4th industrial revolution.
From Mass Production System Toward Mass Customization System
Education system geared towards mass production system has dropped students’ happiness and teachers’ self-efficacy.
Korean students are not happy despite high Math Scores Korean teachers are losing self-efficacy despite high salaries
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Korea’s Experience shows developing countries should leapfrog to massively provide personalized learning experience for all children
Learn to Test
Shallow Learning
Vertical Learning
From Mass Production to Mass Personalization
Learn to Learn
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Teacher education and training to harness education technology and learning science for high-touch and high-tech learning is the key
Best results with “High-Touch and High-Tech” Learning
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High-Tech(Adoptive Learning)With AI and Mobiles
High-Touch (Project-Based Learning)With Teachers
As Korea transformed itself from aid recipient to donor in 2009, rather than repeating the knowledge transfer like Peabody Project, it
should work together with other developing countries to leapfrog global education.
Peabody Project in 1956-1962• Peabody College for Teachers transferred advanced knowledge and practices in
teacher education and training from the US to Korea• 39 advisors or consultants stayed in Korea about two years to work on
programs to improve teacher education including curriculum and textbook development
• 82 Korean teachers, school principals, supervisors, and researchers were sent to Peabody to participate in training or degree courses with scholarships.
• This program nurtured many national and local educational leaders, who actively transformed and modernized Korea’s educational system.
As even education workforce in an exemplary country like Korea cannot meet demands by students and the society, international
community should take action in collectively designing and strengthening education workforce.
Education Workforce Initiative (EWI)• EWI aims to develop concrete options for policy makers to design and
strengthen an education workforce to meet the changing demands of the 21st century and to improve learning outcomes
• EWI will bring fresh thinking and new approaches to workforce design and implementation by drawing on evidence from in-depth case studies on how education workforce reform is implemented and examples of innovation.
EWI complements the existing UNESCO International Task Force for 2030. It focuses on a limited set of priorities in depth to address key gaps, involve new actors, and create a strong platform for country
implementation.
Expected Outcomes of EWI• An Education Workforce Report: This will include a review of recent evidence,
lessons from other sectors, and in-depth examples of effective education workforce reform or innovative approaches
• A series of country-specific proposals of education workforce reform: These will be co-developed with policymakers in three EWI countries (Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Vietnam), in collaboration with local research partners and other actors who will help sustain the reforms in the longer term.
• The initiative aims to build local and international capacity in education workforce reform.