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The purposes of this paper were to examine the potential for the field of educational psychology to move beyond 'psychology-applied-to-education' to develop a unique professional practice components and discuss how to train graduate students to practice professional services through a graduate program in educational psychology. In this paper, I first presented the nature of educational psychology and outlined career opportunities for educational psychologists. Second, I discussed if educational psychology qualifies as a profession and offered consulting with school as an example of professional service of educational psychology. Third, I discussed the content of a graduate program identified as 'core content' required for professional practice. Fourth, I suggested several issues and future tasks be considered when Korean educational psychologists would intend to practice professional services in their sociocultural settings. Included in the issues were (1)need of various formative evaluations for the discipline, (2)overlapping nature with other disciplines, (3)appropriateness for educational psychology to move in the direction of the graduate program with respect to national licensure, (4)roles of educational psychologists in educational reform, (5)need of fixed core curricula in the graduate program designed to train practitioners. Finally, I concluded that the members of the discipline have to reach sufficient consensus on the fixed core curricula and a body of common knowledge to foster the development of the competencies required for professional practice.

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