미국의 가치관과 교육 = A Study of American Education and Values

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

We live in an age of globalization. So it is essential to understand the literature, music and art of a people as well as their customs, tradition, and basic values. In addition. It is also more important to investigate the relationship of them by referring to ours.
In this thesis I want to focus on the relationship between American education and American basic values and to know how these values are applied to American education. The way in which some Americans practice their beliefs may also differ, resulting in a great variety of lifestyles. In some parts of America bilingualism and biculturalism continue. But it is usually said that diversity in unity and unity in diversity is characteristic of everything Americans. It is partly from the physical differences in the geography of the United States of America, and partly from the national, political, social and religious differences of the early immigrants who came to the New World in the 1600's.
Particularly noteworthy is that American education system has reflected the ideal of the equal opportunity just as the American public school system has been developed. In 1825 the public education was "open to all" and they kept the system financing the schools with tax money. This has helped to develop the equal opportunity in American education. Without regard to his level and social status, every on has had the rights to be taught in any public school. The most important departure from the ideal of equal opportunity occurred in the education of black Americans. Black people in the southern states were prohibited by law from attending schools with whites In 1954 the system of segregated public education in southern States came to an end. Now they are free to attend any public school. Above all some of the schools. especially the laws and medical schools have attempted to do more than treat all applicants equally. That is, the affirmative action to set minority quotas has been in effect.
Some one says that such quotas were denial of equal education. By th way this will be well said that American education system has tried to advance the equal opportunity in American education.
Secondly Americans put a high value on an individual in education. Americans created the climate of freedom where the emphasis was put on the individual. So America came to be associated in the minds with the concept of individual freedom. This will be the most significant factor of all the American values. It also helped to attract immigrants to this country. In order to be in the mainstream of American life an individual must be seen as self-reliant.
Finally we should also notice that American education has a close relation with the value of material wealth. Tocqueville, a French aristocrat at first shared the fear of those rich American who believed that universal education would be a danger rather than a national blessing. But together with developing the equal opportunity and the emphasis on individual in education, the money value has made a good contribution to American education. So it goes without saying that the more schooling people have the more money they have when they leave school. With all these prepositions I looked over the revealed factors of American education.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 서론
• Ⅱ. 기회균등과 교육
• Ⅲ. 개인주의와 교육
• Ⅳ. 풍요와 교육
• Ⅴ. 미국 교육의 과제
• Ⅵ. 결론
• 참고문헌
• ABSTRACT