No alternative? Experiments in South Korean education
With one of the highest per-capita expenditures on education in the world, South Korea offers a window on the challenges of learning in a neoliberal era of increasing global competition. No Alternative? investigates the rapidly growing field of education outside of daytime K-16 schooling in South Ko...
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Berkeley, Calif. u.a.
Global, Area, and International Archive, Univ. of California Press
c 2012
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| Schriftenreihe: | The Seoul-California series in Korean studies
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | With one of the highest per-capita expenditures on education in the world, South Korea offers a window on the challenges of learning in a neoliberal era of increasing global competition. No Alternative? investigates the rapidly growing field of education outside of daytime K-16 schooling in South Korea. Through ethnographic portraits of private after-schooling, alternative or second-chance schooling, home schooling, and adult distance education, the book reveals that education producers and consumers alike often reject or exit mainstream education while simultaneously seeking or embracing its symbolic value "No Alternative sheds abundant light on the ways in which the South Korean educational system intricately intersects with intractable problems of class, social mobility, politics, and Korea's ongoing economic transformations. It will be beneficial both for those who have little knowledge of the situation of contemporary South Korean education, and for specialists who would gain from the latest research on this ever-changing but acutely problematic arena of contemporary South Korean society." Kelly H. Chong, University of Kansas Nancy Abelmann is Harry E. Preble Professor and associate vice chancellor for research (humanities, arts, and related fields) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Jung-Ah Choi is an adjunct faculty member at Fairleigh Dickinson University. So Jin Park is a research fellow at the institute for Social Development Studies at Yonsei University. --Book Jacket Part I. Educational Transformation. 1. South Korea's educational exceptionalism / Michael Seth ; 2. South Korea's "school collapse" debates / Jae Hoon Lim -- Part II. Alternative Education. 3. A second-chance high school : students' second-class internalization and stratification / Jung-ah Choi ; 4. Homeschooling adventures of the middle class / Deok-Hee Seo ; 5. Overcoming the "pseudo-university" : the transformative learning of adult women / Kiyeon Yi -- Part III. Supplementary Education. 6. Private institutes as educational sedatives / Misook Kim ; 7. Mothers' anxious management of the private after-school education market / So Jin Park |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 141 - 155) and index "This book emerged from a workshop held at the University of Illinois in 2003 entitled 'South Korea's Neoliberal Educational Transformation: The Ethnography of Classed Experience' "--Page vii |
| Beschreibung: | VII, 164 S. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0520098803 0-520-09880-3 9780984590926 978-0-9845909-2-6 9780520289802 978-0-520-28980-2 0520289803 0-520-28980-3 9780520098800 978-0-520-09880-0 |