A Study on Issues of ‘Neulbom School’ Policy : Based on CONCOR Analysis

The purpose of this study is to analyze issues of ‘Neulbom School’ policy, which has recently been fully introduced and operated in the elementary education, and provide implications for the stable establishment and efficient operation of Neulbom School in the future. For this, press releases from Ministry of Education, Office of Education, and teachers’ organizations and media articles related to the Neulbom School policy were selected and keyword frequency analysis and CONCOR analysis were performed. The results of this study are as follow. First, as a result of keyword frequency analysis, the top keywords by group were ‘support’, ‘program’, ‘office of education’, and ‘education’ for Ministry of Education, ‘support’, ‘program’, ‘education’, and ‘office of education’ for Office of Education, ‘teacher’, ‘education’, ‘work’, and ‘ministry of education’ for the teachers’ organizations, and ‘education’, ‘program’, ‘teacher’, and ‘support’ for the media. Additionally, keywords that were derived only from specific groups were identified. Second, as a result of the CONCOR analysis, 8 clusters were formed from Ministry of Education, 4 clusters from Office of Education, 8 clusters from teachers’ organizations, and 4 clusters from media articles. Through the clusters formed by group, it was able to identify clusters formed equally from all groups and clusters formed only from specific group. Through this, it was able to identify similarities and differences in perceptions related to Neulbom School policy by group. Based on the results of this analysis, the study recommends that it is necessary to reflect opinions of schools and teachers on the Neulbom School policy and to discuss on the identify of the Neulbom School policy.