the Effects of Life-long Vocational Education

Abstract: This study conducted a quantitative meta-analysis on the preceding research related to life-long vocational education to derive the generalized conclusions on the effects of life-long vocational education, set the direction of the future life-long vocational education, and find implications on the implementation measures. The conclusions drawn in this study are as follows. First, life-long vocational education has a large effect on dependent variables. Additionally, action appears to have the highest effect-size result on dependent variables. Next, when calculating the size of variables that had an effect on life-long vocational education by educational type, the effect size of informal education was found bigger than that of formal education. Lastly, regarding the effect on the life-long vocational education participants, office workers were influenced most, followed by university students, North Korean defectors, job seekers, and foreign workers. Unlike the past, life-long vocational education should be organized based on systematic content. In particular, career and vocational education for up-skilling and re-skilling of the people are needed at a time when the school-age and working-age population is decreasing while the elderly population is sharply increasing.