Author: Namgi Park
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-05-03
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 113558186X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This definitive collection takes an in-depth look at the higher education system in Korea. The editors and contributors present a fundamentally Korean view of the important issues for the Korean higher education system. In systematic, well written essays, they construct theoretical perspectives to analyze the development of the higher education system in Korea's competitive society, a project never before undertaken in the English language.
Author: Heinz-Dieter Meyer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-04-20
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9462092303
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The purpose of this volume is to help jump-start an urgently needed conversation about fairness and justice in access to higher education to counteract the ubiquitous mantras of neoliberal globalization and managerialism. The book seeks to carve out a strong moral and normative basis for opposing mainstream developments that engender increasing inequality and market-dependency in higher education. The book’s chapters consider how different national communities channel access to higher education, what their “implicit social contracts” are, and what outcomes are produced by different policies and methods. The book is essential reading for scholars of higher education and students concerned with increasing inequality in a globalizing educational marketplace.
Author: Hyunjoon Park
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-11-24
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9814451274
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This edited volume offers a comprehensive survey of Korean education in transition. Divided into three parts, the book first assesses the current state of Korean education. It examines how the educational system handles the effects of family background and gender in helping students smoothly transition from school to the labor market. Next, the book introduces growing concerns over whether the traditional model of Korean education can adequately meet the demands of the emerging knowledge-based economy. It examines features of new reform measures that have been introduced to help Korean education prepare students for the new economy. The third part discusses how an influx of diverse migrant groups, including marriage migrants, migrant workers, and North Korean migrants, and the rising divorce rate — two major demographic changes— challenge the fundamental assumption of cultural homogeneity that has long been a part of Korean education. This detailed analysis of a society and educational system in transition will appeal to a wide range of readers, from those involved with Korean education to educators and administrators in countries currently looking for ways to handle their own economic and demographic changes.
Author: Jeong-kyu Lee
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9788988095379
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Don Adams
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-12-12
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1351387200
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book, first published in 1993, provides students and scholars with an introduction to Korean education and the dynamics of interchange between the educational system and rapidly changing Korean society. Severe political, social and educational problems may be found in modern Korea: these conditions, together with certain persistent issues pertaining to the purposes, structure, and pedagogical characteristics of schooling make for serious contemporary debate.
Author: P.G. Altbach
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1989-03-31
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9789024737772
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael J. Seth
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2002-09-30
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0824862309
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the half century after 1945, South Korea went from an impoverished, largely rural nation ruled by a succession of authoritarian regimes to a prosperous, democratic industrial society. No less impressive was the country's transformation from a nation where a majority of the population had no formal education to one with some of the world's highest rates of literacy, high school graduates, and university students. Drawing on their premodern and colonial heritages as well as American education concepts, South Koreans have been largely successful in creating a schooling system that is comprehensive, uniform in standard, and universal. The key to understanding this educational transformation is South Korean society's striking, nearly universal preoccupation with schooling-what Korean's themselves call their "education fever." This volume explains how Koreans' concern for achieving as much formal education as possible appeared immediately before 1945 and quickly embraced every sector of society. Through interviews with teachers, officials, parents, and students and an examination of a wide range of written materials in both Korean and English, Michael Seth explores the reasons for this social demand for education and how it has shaped nearly every aspect of South Korean society. He also looks at the many problems of the Korean educational system: the focus on entrance examinations, which has tended to reduce education to test preparation; the overheated competition to enter prestige schools; the enormous financial burden placed on families for costly private tutoring; the inflexibility created by an emphasis on uniformity of standards; and the misuse of education by successive governments for political purposes.
Author: Han'guk Taehak Kyoyuk Hyŏbŭihoe
Publisher: Bernan Press(PA)
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13:
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