Colleges & Departments

The National Teachers College, which had educated nearly 5,900 primary educators since its foundation as the Temporary Educational Institute for Primary Educators in 1946, was reborn as the Teachers College of Jeju National University in March 2008.

Jeju National University has since become the first national university with an unrivaled educational institute capable of fostering both the primary and secondary educators. The national subsidies for the consolidation of the two institutes and plenty of incentives given for state-funded projects are reinvested to raise the quality of the educational programs.

The Teachers College will be renovated as the educational institute for the nation’s best-skilled primary teachers with expertise, manners, and passion through its unequaled facilities, systems, and curricula.

The fundamental goal of the Teachers College is to foster professional teachers with a broad understanding of the characteristics of elementary school students as well as a firm understanding of educational content and teaching methods. Furthermore, the Teachers College has concentrated on nurturing educators with a strong work ethic and passion based on the humanities and social manners, exemplary personalities, and an in-depth awareness of the dignity and values of a teaching post.

The Teachers College will make further contributions to the regional and national development by creating talented teachers with the community pride and global awareness that can lead the ‘glocalized’ 21st century.

Introduction

The Elementary Ethics Education Majors students are educated in the comprehensive and systematic way of recognizing the human and societal phenomena through the broad perspectives of philosophy, ethics, political science, psychology, Korean history, and related humanities subjects. The majors program aims at cultivating the talented teachers equipped with the knowledge of ethics and morality, while sharing the belief in democratic values willing and playing contributing roles as citizens in the development of democratic community.

Aims

The majors program aims at nurturing the talented teaching professionals with specialized expertise and broad understanding of the elementary school children and their educational curricula. In particular, they are educated capable of ethical contemplation and critical consideration of moral education in theory and practice.

Careers

Graduates of the majors program earn their teaching licenses as 2nd degree elementary school teachers. They may also opt for further specialized studies at graduate schools.

History

1946.07: Opened Jeju Interim Elementary School Teachers Training Center (3 month program)
1946.11. Upgraded to 1 year program
1951.11. Upgraded to 3 year program
1953.04. Established Jeju School of Education
1962.02. Established and merged with Jeju Junior College Auxiliary Department of Education
1968.10. Upgraded to Jeju Teachers College
1984.03. Upgraded to Jeju Teachers College (4 year program), (Specialized Children Education Majors and Specialized Elementary Education Majors)
1990. Established Jeju Teachers College (Specialized Ethics Education Majors)
2008. Merged as Jeju National University Teachers College, and established Elementary Ethics Education Majors, Department of Elementary Education