韓国平生教育におけるパラダイム転換とその課題 : 社会教育法から平生教育法への変化を中心として

The Lifelong Education Law was established in 1999 as the result of the education reform in the middle of 1990's in South Korea. It not only means the change of the legal system but also a paradigm shift of the idea of lifelong education. This paper is to examine the meaning and significance of the changes brought by the establishment of the Lifelong Education Law. This paper will first review the content and limits of the Social Education Law. Secondly, the process of the education reform and the article of the right to learn in the Fundamental Law of Education (which is the philosophical ground of the Lifelong Education Law) will be described. Thirdly, the paper will grasp the features of the Lifelong Education Law and based on the examination of this, it will focus on community lifelong education. Finally, the paper will suggest how we can make lifelong education sustainable