This study is intended to explore any possibilities for presidential election
as a field of inquiry beyond the limited range of educational inquiry, in
spite of its significance of interest. For the purpose this study attempts to
articulate the concept of presidential election and to unravel its political
interests in terms of its contents and methods, and suggests the meaning of
educational politics inquiry and the themes and :methods for its inquiry.
Baesd on these results, this study recommends some implications for
establishing the process of presidential election to be a field of research in
the politics of education as the followings: (1) It is desirable that the
approach of educational politics to presidential election collaborates various
themes, analytic frameworks, and methodology in its inquiry with the
political science, and thus extends the range and depth of its research,
while it should be refined towards strengthening the identity of the politics
of education as a branch discipline of education. (2) Researchers in the
politics of education need to make their range and depth extend on
research themes and contents of educational politics to presidential election.
(3) Both the methodological diversity and rigor should be pursued in the
educational politics inquiry on presidential election.