Korean Educational Development Institute(KEDI)

Research on Educational Development Cooperation between Korea and Developing Countries (II):

Latin America and the Caribbean

“Research on the educational cooperation with developing countries: Research on the method of education cooperation with Central and South American countries,” a long-term project for three years, is being carried out to prepare the method of efficient cooperation by deriving the tasks of educational development cooperation with five developing countries (Guatemala, Bolivia, Colombia, Paraguay, and Peru) in Central and South America. In the first-year study, the educational situation and the trend of educational reform in five Central and South American countries, the trend of educational development cooperation projects in the international society, and the major educational issues in those countries were identified, and policy analysis and basic research to develop the educational development cooperation tasks between Korea and those five abovementioned Central and South American countries based on the Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) established by the Korean Government was conducted. This study, the second-year study, established the educational development cooperation method for each of those five countries based on regional characteristics, country characteristics, and the comparative advantage of Korea; the donor country; and selected priority cooperation tasks. In 2015, the third-year study will be conducted to prepare a detailed implementation method through a feasibility study for the selection and promotion of an educational development cooperation pilot project in each of the five abovementioned Central and South American countries.

This second-year study drew the implications by analyzing the cases of the educational development cooperation projects carried out by major advanced donor countries and international organizations, and suggested detailed tasks by selecting the priority cooperation tasks that comprehensively reflected the comparative advantage of Korea, project feasibility, and the educational demand of each research country. In addition, this study tried to improve the policy practicability by preparing the roadmap to realize the detailed tasks of each country. To increase the efficiency of educational development cooperation with the developing countries in Central and South America, this study also examined the applicability of triangle cooperation, private-government cooperation, and multiple cooperation.