A study on the support, exchange and cooperation of education during and after unification of Germany

This study is to analyse the support, exchange and cooperation of education during and after unification of Germany and to extract implications for unification education in South Korea from it. The support and cooperation in education during the process of unification of Germany are summarized in four aspects: joint committee of education between East- and West Germany, educational cooperation between East-and West Berlin, cooperation of non-state organizations between East- and West Germany and recommendations and supports from the education of West Germany. After unification of Germany are analysed the support, exchange and cooperation of education. As the support of education were fulfilled financial, personal and material support from old federal states, educational support by international organization, and support by private foundations. There were also educational cooperations between East- and West Germany in various levels. Furthermore, there were various exchange of students, teachers, teacher organizations, schools between old and new federal states, and exchange of educational field as a part of city exchanges as well. We can extract following implications for unification education in South Korea from this study: the need for broad discussions on which level of unification teleological is in education, preparation of alternatives for overcoming the educatinal problems of South-and North Korea, recovery of the educational exchanges and cooperations between South-and North Korea in the level of province office of education, discussion on construction of joint committee of education between South-and North Korea, active investigation of educational support methods by international organization.