The purpose of this study is to investigate how the DMOE’s(Daegu Metropolitan Office
of Education) policy on the creativity education during the past 20 years has been carried
out, and to evaluate its process and results. To complete the study’s o...
The purpose of this study is to investigate how the DMOE’s(Daegu Metropolitan Office
of Education) policy on the creativity education during the past 20 years has been carried
out, and to evaluate its process and results. To complete the study’s objective, this study
uses documents analysis and interview as the research method. The followings are specific
research questions explored in the study.
Firstly, what are the positive aspects(the light) on the DMOE’s policy on creativity
education?
Secondly, what are the negative aspects(the shade) on the DMOE’s policy on creativity
education?
Thirdly, what are the implications and alternatives of the DMOE’s policy on creativity
education?
With regard to the first research question, this study found ‘congruency’, ‘continuity’,
‘systematicity’, ‘specificity’, and ‘validity’ as positive aspects of DMOE’s policy on creativity
education.
With regard to the second research question, this study found followings: First, the
DMOE failed to realize the plan to develop a tool for measuring creativity. Furthermore,
between school administrators and teachers, there existed gaps in satisfaction level for each
concrete project and perception on the factors that restricted proper implementation of the
DMOE’s policy on creativity education.
With regard to the third research question, based on the results of this study, followings are
discussed. Firstly, the gap in perception between school administrators and teachers is
inevitable in the course of implementation of educational policies. Due to this, it is crucial to
constantly revise them based on reality to solve this problem. Secondly, as a suggestion of
the DMOE’s creativity education policy for the past 20 years, it was discussed that the
direction of policy should be placed on the expression of students' everyday creativity
through daily classroom classes. Finally, the meaning of 'question' in creativity education
and the necessity of introducing 'classroom with questions' as an alternative to DMOE’s
creativity education were examined.
The practical contribution and limitation of this study are followings. One of practical
contributions of this study is that it provides a basic understanding and evaluation of the
DMOE's creativity education policy from 2001-20 through an overview and analysis of pros
and cons. This could be used as basic data for improving the DMOE’s creativity education
policy. This study also provides organized data on the DMOE’s creativity education policy
for the past 20 years despite the DMOE has not published a white paper on the creativity
education policy.
On the other hand, since this study aimed to evaluate through an overview of the
DMOE’s creativity education policy, it has a limitation in specifically dealing with cases of
creative instruction and evaluation. Another limitation to the study is that it collected data
through a small number of interviewees because it conducted interviews to supplement the
literature analysis as the main research method.