Korean Educational Development Institute(KEDI)

Prospects and Tasks for Changes in High School Education Environment: From Students' Point of View

The purpose of this study is to examine the reality of high school education and to explore future education from the perspective of students and to suggest policy tasks that can create a hopeful educational environment students desire. There are three major key research questions in this study. First, what are the problems of high school education from students’ perspective? Second, how do they predict the change in the educational environment of high schools and its future? Third, what are the policy tasks of creating a hopeful high school education environment for students? To answer these questions, the research team devised a research method called the ‘Student Agency Driven Action Research (SADAR)’ which involves students as the key research agents. Students conducted a study that concerns examining problems of high school education and its future direction with the guidance of their teacher, and the research team collected data through observation and conducting interview throughout the process.