Korean educational accountability policies were derived from the 5.31 Education
Reform oriented to school effectiveness and the quality instruction through teacher
professionalism enhancement. The policies are included school evaluation, teacher
evaluation, national assessment of educational achievement, and educational
institution information disclosure. This paper is to analyze the influence of
educational accountability policy on the teaching profession from the Bernstein's,
Foucault's, and Durkheim's perspectives. The researcher used literature review, and
Delphi and Survey techniques for drawing on the regularities and patterns of
teaching profession change under accountability policy. The accountability policies
drive the teaching profession to direct to collection code related to the explicit,
visible, tightly-coupled observation, evaluation, and supervision. So, the teaching
profession has become more homogeneous and normalized because schools and
teachers try to fit for the predestinated performance standards and guidelines for
escaping from the special measures or the harsh sanctions. As a result, teaching
profession has turned from loosely-coupled organic solidarity to tightly-coupled
mechanical solidarity. However, professionals and teachers tend to consider the
teaching profession featuring organic solidarity based on integrated code. It is
significant that accountability policy needs to be oriented to professional
accountability.