A Comparative Analysis of Changes in Secondary Vocational Education by Industrial Development in Korea and France

The purpose of this study was to comprehensively compare and analyze how secondary vocational education in Korea and France has developed in response to industrial development, and to explore the direction of improvement of secondary vocational education in Korea. To achieve the research objective, a situational analysis method was adopted from the international comparative research method in the field of education and training, and a comparative analysis framework was formulated. In the comparative analysis framework, the analysis criteria were set as the change process aspect and the relationship aspect, and the comparative analysis content in the change process aspect was set as the change in industrial development and secondary vocational education in Korea and France, and the comparative analysis content in the relationship aspect was set as the relationship between industrial development and secondary vocational education, and the two countries were compared from the perspective of the interrelationship of complex elements. The research results are as follows. First, Korea and France experienced similar industrial development stages, and expanded and strengthened secondary vocational education in order to appropriately supply the necessary human resources at each industrialization period. Second, as the industrial structure became more advanced, the nature of secondary vocational education changed from completion education to continuing education, and as the importance of career education rose, the career education system according to lifelong career paths was strengthened. Third, the more centralized a country is, the more the government decides the direction of secondary vocational education based on its industrial development plan.