Korean Educational Development Institute(KEDI)

A study on OECD Education 2030 project:

Exploring the application of competencies to educational policy in South Korea

As a participatory research of the “OECD Education 2030” project, this study aims to conduct an in-depth examination of the significance of “competency” derived as the conclusion to the project and to explore the tasks that should be pursued in the course of applying “competency” as the vision for future educational reforms, based on a diagnosis of the current status and shortcomings of Korea’s competency-based education policy. Specifically, the contents of this study are as follows: 1) an analysis of the context within which the OECD Education 2030 project was enacted and its course of progress, 2) an exploration of the significance and design orientationof “competency” education as newly defined by the OECD Education 2030 project, 3) an analysis of the current status of the application of Korea’s competency-based education policies in light of the OECD Education 2030 project - with a particular focus on the points of debate that arose during the development and implementation of the 2015 revised curriculum, and 4) an analysis of the perception and needs of teachers regarding the implementation of the current competency-based curriculum.