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Record W4415138052 · doi:10.14328/mes.2025.9.30.285

Future Directions of South Korea’s Multicultural Education: Recommendations Based on International Comparative Analysis with Canada’s Individual Education Plan (IEP)

2025· article· en· W4415138052 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueMulticultural Education Studies · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGlobal Educational Reforms and Inequalities
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMulticulturalismMulticultural educationInclusion (mineral)Plan (archaeology)Ethnic groupIdentity (music)Cultural diversityCultural pluralism

Abstract

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South Korea is undergoing a rapid transition into a multicultural society and it is only steps away from becoming the first country in Asia to be officially categorized as a multicultural nation. Therefore, this study aims to address the issues with South Korea’s multicultural education policy, and proposes recommendations for future improvements by conducting an international comparative analysis with Canada’s Individual Education Plan (IEP). IEP is a policy designed to address student’s various educational needs that cannot be fully met through general education alone. By assessing each student’s strengths and providing tailored educational programs and services, IEP ultimately allows maximum growth of individual’s potential and holistic development. This study presents three key recommendations for Korea’s multicultural education policy based on the analysis of IEP. First, the multicultural education policy should be expanded beyond students of non-Korean nationalities and ethnicities to include all students, and should attempt to promote multicultural awareness and inclusiveness at the societal level. Second, support programs should not only focus on academic achievements but consider the significance of social-emotional experiences in order to foster healthy identity development, peer-relationships, and the holistic wellbeing of the students. Third, principals and educational leaders should be encouraged to develop and practice culturally responsive school leadership (CRSL) that can create a school culture of inclusion and diversity, and implement a collaborative relationship between students, teachers, parents, and the community. This study ultimately argues for a redefinition of multicultural education—from a compensatory approach targeting specific groups to a form of global citizenship education for all students—laying the groundwork for a transformative shift in educational policy that can create an inclusive and equitable multicultural society in South Korea.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.287
Threshold uncertainty score0.996

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.057
GPT teacher head0.394
Teacher spread0.337 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it