An Exploratory Study on School Safety Education after the Ferry Sewol Disaster - Focused on the Seven Standards for School Safety Education

This study derived problems arising from the field application of “Seven Standards for School Safety Education” a representative policy of schools after the Sewol ferry sinking accident. As a result, the Seven Standard was analyzed that the basic law function of the school(School Safety Acts) needed to be strengthened to serve as the basic laws for school safety. Based on the students’ perceptions, the safety education of the school did not sufficiently meet the demands of students since the necessity was relatively higher than the satisfaction level of safety education. Teachers generally agreed with the purpose of the Seven Standards, they were passive in the implementation of education and showed negative tendency to administrative works related to safety education, so there is need to improve internal and external factors that hinder teachers implementation of safety education. In terms of policy execution, the Ministry of Education needs to make efforts to establish a policy to expand the expertise of the teachers in charge of safety education and to establish a school safety education system that supports the contents of the seven standards of education in cooperation with local related organizations and civic groups.