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Education System

Culture and Arts Education

Special Education

In order to foster our students' artistic sensibility and creativity,
Multicultural/ we fully support education in the arts and various art experience
In Seoul, there are currently 4,362 students attending 31 Global Citizenship Education programs that are linked with the school curriculum. Since 2017,
national, public, and private special schools, and 1,372 special for the first time in the nation, we have had all middle school
classes in kindergartens, elementary schools, middle schools, students participate in musical, theater, or film activities for at
and high schools providing integrated education for 6,246 The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education's multicultural least one semester. In 2019, we expanded the “comprehensive
disabled students.Special educational institutions are providing education policy aims to provide customized support to collaborative arts activity” program to all elementary and high
kindergarten, elementary school, middle school, and high multicultural students in order to help them better adapt to the schools in the city. We have also established three Seoul Creative
school education (including major courses) to students with city’s public education system while teaching all students in Seoul Arts Education Centers in the city to provide diverse and creative
disabilities eligible for special education in 10 areas.Seoul is to respect and value differences in order to become leaders in arts education programs customized for their respective regions.
also implementing various support programs empowering a multicultural era by fostering the multicultural sensitivity and We run a musical instrument bank to help students enjoy music in
disabled students to live together with non-disabled students cross-cultural competence of all school members. To this end, their daily lives and learn to play at least one musical instrument
by providing them with all due assistance and establishing a we provide a one-stop service to help multicultural students each. We support the bank financially for purchasing musical
human rights protection system customized for such students. adapt to the city’s public education system easily through the instruments. We also dispatch professional art instructors to
Multicultural Education Support Center (the main office and the more than 1,100 schools in association with Korea Arts & Culture
southern office), offer Korean as Second Language (KSL) classes Education Service to actively promote education in the arts at
along with Korean culture classes through special multicultural schools. We currently operate student clubs (orchestra, musical,
classes (23), and continue to ameliorate our psychological/ theater, chorus and fine art, etc.) in 170 schools. We have
career counseling services. In addition, we promote cross- designated 20 Arts Dream Base Schools, 4 Gugak Orchestra Base
Alternative Education cultural education for all students in connection with the regular Schools, and 1 Art Ieum Research School. We also run the Seoul
school curriculum, support bilingual education by employing Student Philharmonic Orchestra. Every year, we will also host the
multicultural language instructors, and implement job training to “Together Art Forest Festival” where students from across the city
The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education is offering cultivate teachers' multicultural educational capabilities. Global present the results of their school arts educational activities.
customized alternative education to suit certain career citizenship education (GCE), which takes multicultural education
aptitudes for students who are on the brink of discontinuing one step further, is critical for students to co-exist and live
schooling or want to receive the type of education that peacefully with others in an age when an individuals’ virtual life
fits their personal characteristics. As of now, there are four space and influence expands throughout the global village. With
schools providing alternative education for children of North the vision of “cultivating global citizens who live together in the
Korean defectors and multicultural families, as well as those global community,” the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education
wanting applied musical education. The Superintendent of implements global citizenship education called, “Coexistence and
Seoul has installed or designated over 40 public schools and win-win,” to cultivate students who are democratic citizens with
private alternative educational institutions, fit to provide global competence while bolstering the faculty’s professionalism
commissioned education, as alternative commissioned and accountability for global citizenship education. To this end,
educational institutions. These school provide alternative we have designated 30 global citizenship education schools, 55
education customized for the characteristics of diverse UNESCO schools, and 46 pioneering faculty members so that
students including those who are maladjusted to regular these schools can autonomously implement global citizenship
schools, suffer from borderline intellectual functioning, have education in connection with the school curriculum. We develop
been psychiatrically hospitalized, or come from multicultural and distribute global citizenship education materials and programs
families, North Korean defectors, or unmarried, single mothers. on an annual basis. In addition, we conduct job training to
Also, individual schools are making efforts to improve students’ strengthen our teachers’ competence and reinforce our networks 32
ability to adapt to school by operating alternative classrooms. with related organizations to more actively support global
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