Jeong Seonghong, Gwangju Education Superintendent Preliminary Candidate, "Will Build an Educational Ecosystem Connecting Schools and Communities"

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] Jeong Seonghong, a preliminary candidate for Superintendent of Education of Gwangju Metropolitan City, stated that he will establish an educational ecosystem connecting schools and communities.

On the 23rd, Jeong released a press statement announcing policy pledges to realize "Gwangju Education that Cultivates Life."

He said, "Future education requires a new approach that enhances the connection between life and education," adding, "To achieve 'education for life,' where knowledge and life align, it is necessary to build an educational ecosystem in which human, material, and cultural resources of schools and communities interact and create a virtuous cycle."

To this end, he proposed pledges including ▲care education that leaves no one behind ▲activation of a student life-centered educational ecosystem ▲resolution of educational polarization.

The "care education that leaves no one behind" envisions establishing a Gwangju-type care system through collaboration between the Office of Education and local governments.

Along with this, a "dedicated care organization" integrating care tasks of the Office of Education and local governments will be operated, and care centers by autonomous districts and communities will be expanded.

The Office of Education plans to pilot operate future-type care classrooms where the Office provides space and local governments handle operations, and also promote the reorganization and environmental improvement of existing care classrooms.

Regarding the "activation of a student life-centered educational ecosystem," he proposed installing community education centers by region, operating student growth community support groups, and running community schools linked across elementary, middle, and high schools.

He will also create student autonomous community spaces, operate youth autonomous schools linked with each community residents' council, activate student growth community clubs, and run community education experience buses.

Additionally, to "resolve educational polarization," he plans to expand and strengthen growth-type educational welfare schools. He aims to increase the deployment of professional educational welfare workers for kindergarten, elementary, middle, and high schools, and spread schools that empower children’s life strength based on educational welfare communities involving schools and local communities.

He also plans to operate an "SOS Call Center" for students in urgent crisis and establish a dense and seamless educational welfare safety net through linkage between the Office of Education and local governments.

Jeong said, "The great transformation of education must start with building an educational ecosystem where schools and communities, which are most closely connected to children’s lives, coexist," adding, "I will create Gwangju as an educational city where communities and local society together support children’s healthy growth and learning."

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