This study is intended to explore the relationship between the politics of
education and the political science, to diagnose the issues hampering disciplinary
identity of the politics of education, and to examine tasks for its development.
Both the politics of education and the political science have been influenced by
academic stream and theoretical universality of Western politics so that they
cannot establish their own identity based on Korean reality. Accordingly, both
need to share issues and tasks on disciplinary identity, and to form mutual
collaboration in order to establish it through dialogue and fusion between the
disciplines. In detail, the issues to do it are as the followings: (1) the politics of
education as a rainbow science, (2) the politics of education focused on control
and instrumentality, (3) the politics of education as an area study of American
politics of education, and (4) the politics of education as adaptologies and
imitatologies. Finally, the tasks to solve the issues are suggested as the follows:
(1) to overcome rotated relations between theoretical dependence on methodology
and methodological dependence on theory, (2) to avoid rule-making and
rule-adapting research of educational politics, (3) to explore the establishment
of educational politics curriculum and its standardization, and (4) to publish an
introductory textbook on Korean politics of education