Korean Educational Development Institute(KEDI)

International Comparative Study: OECD Education and Social Progress (Ⅱ)

This study is the second year's study in the first phase (2011~2013) of OECD's Education and Social Progress (ESP) project that examines educational effects upon various aspects of social progress. While the ESP project progresses in coordination between KEDI researchers and OECD's project team, this study is an independent research on what the ESP project intends to investigate using an international macro-data and a national micro-data. Based upon the ESP research framework, this study looks into the following two research questions.

First, do learning environments have effects on fostering competences essential for social progress? Which among the learning environments such as family, school, work place and local community has larger effect than the others? When compared to the other countries, what is the nature of learning environment in Korea?

Second, can cognitive and non-cognitive competences affect social progress? What competences matter more for individual success? Does Korea differ from the other countries on that matter?