The purpose of this study was to deconstruct the academic clique as an
approach of Andragogy. It was assumed in this study that the academic clique
obstructed the normalization of education and spoiled the nature of learning in
post-modern society. In Korean society, what was required for one's success
was not only one's ability but the academic clique, a faction which was formed
based on academic background. It was wrongful to measure one's ability by the
academic clique. Nevertheless it went with one's life as if it were one's
inborn-status. Especially, we must prepared for the future society, it has to
need that the HRD for Gold Collar worker. Many researchers had tried to study
this phenomenon in order to break down it and they proposed alternatives. But
those proposals were functional and were no more than technical substitutes.
To deconstruct the academic clique society, this study began with a review of
the 'New Status Group Theory' as the main theoretical framework, then,
deconstruct the triade as the college entrance examination as the tacit premise
which justified and maintained the academic clique, pedagogy which was
justified by the college entrance examination, and the curriculum of the
university which allowed easier graduation in contrast to entrance. The
alternative of the academic clique deconstruction was recurrence of the Erudition. The recurrence erudition will be the key to solve the current
problems in this academic clique society.
Therefore, to normalize our education, we must deconstruct the current
system of college-entrance-exam, pedagogy, and the curriculum of the
universities, then, recur the Erudition to prohibit the reappearing the academic
clique in the future.