국가직무능력표준(NCS)의 교육적 활용을 위한 전문대학 교수의 역량 탐색

초록

The political endeavors of the Korean government toward the competency-based education have been implemented as a movement to the National Competency Standards (NCS)-based curriculum. Junior colleges, one of the main vocational training institutions, have paid more attention to the scheme. However, one of the most critical factors in introducing and implementing the NCS-based curriculum is the role of faculty members. Therefore, it is an urgent issue to equip the faculties with required competencies. The purpose of the study is to draw competencies of faculty members at junior colleges to introduce and implement the NCS-based curriculum. A set of competency was deductively derived from a total of nine professors and consultants with more than ten-year experiences and has been involved in developing the NCS-based curriculum. Questions from the behavioral event interview (BEI) method were selectively adopted for the interviews with the nine experts. The collected data were transcribed and analyzed into different competencies, which then were taxonomically analyzed, and contextually interpreted. This process was recursively repeated and resulted in a final list of competencies. Results showed that the competencies required professors at junior colleges for the NCS-based curriculum implementation were classified into four areas: Macro-level curriculum development; micro-level course design; knowledge across areas; and attitude across areas. The sub-competencies of former two areas may be procedurally arranged. A total of 25 sub-competencies constitute a set of resulting competencies. Comparisons between competencies suggested in the previous literature and the ones from this study were discussed. Further research and political and administrative supports were recommended utilizing the results of the study. It is expected that this study would contribute to developing competencies of junior college faculties who ultimately would improve the quality of the competency-based vocational education.

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