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영어

The purpose of this article is to analyze the political aspects observed in the process of internationalization of undergraduate education at Korean universities. For this purpose, the concept of internationalization of undergraduate education was explored, current situation of internationalization was investigated, and the groups which constitute its political ecological environment were identified. Then key participants who play major roles in the process of internationalization of undergraduate education were identified, and their interests, resources, motivations, and strategies were investigated. The study found that the internationalization aspect of human exchange such as students, faculty has been rapidly grew, but other aspects such as manpower training for international relationship, achieving excellence in education program itself, and global competitiveness of university quality were very poor. And the unbalance problem was serious between out-bound and in-bound in human exchange as out-bound internationalization from Korean universities to overseas was overwhelming. From the political analysis, the study found that industry, press, parents, government, special interest groups, social class groups constitutes the political ecological environment, and students, faculty, individual university(president and headquarter), government(the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development) are key participants. The study also found that students and faculty play successful roles, but individual university's and government's role are unsatisfied in terms of utilizing their interests, resources, motivations, and strategies towards internationalization of undergraduate education. Therefore, more active and adequate efforts of individual university and government are required, which include strategies toward both direction of in-bound and out-bound such as establishing fine support system for foreign students and faculty.

한국어

본 연구의 목적은 우리나라 대학교육 국제화의 정치적 속성을 분석하여 보는 것이다. 이를 위해 학부교육 국제화의 개념을 알아보고, 관련 현황을 개략적으로 살펴보았으며, 분석틀에 따라 정치생태학적 환경을 구성하고 있는 집단을 규명하였다. 다음으로 정치적 과정의 주요 참여자를 규명한 다음 이들의 목표, 자원, 동기수준, 전략을 분석하고 쟁점을 검토하였다. 연구의 결과, 인적 교류를 제외하고는 국제무대 인력 양성, 교육 프로그램 측면, 국제경쟁력 확보 등에서 미흡한 부분이 많고 인적교류의 경우도 out-bound와 in-bound 간의 불균형이 심각한 것으로 나타났다. 정치학적 관점에서는 기업/산업계, 언론, 학부모, 정부 등이 정치생태적 환경을 구성하고 있는 가운데 주요 참여자 중 학생, 교수가 비교적 성공적으로 역할하고 있는 반면 개별 대학과 정부는 상대적으로 미진한 상태에 있는 것으로 분석되었다. 따라서 외국인 학생․교원에 대한 합리적 지원체제 구축과 같은 쌍방향 국제화 전략이 요청되는 등 정부와 개별 대학의 적극적인 노력이 필요하다.