Shadow Education and the Curriculum and Culture of Schooling in South Korea [electronic resource] /
Kim, Young Chun.author.
This book enables Western scholars and educators to recognize the roles and contributions of shadow education/hakwon education in an international context. The book allows readers to redefine the traditional and limited understanding of the background success behind Korean schooling and to expand their perspectives on Korean hakwon education, as well as shadow education in other nations with educational power, such as Japan, China, Singapore, and Taiwan. Kim exhorts readers and researchers to examine shadow education as an emerging research inquiry in the context of postcolonial and worldwide curriculum studies.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
1. Preface -- 2. Prologue -- 3. PISA, Korean students' world-class achievements and Dark side of Korean schooling - 4. History of Shadow education in Korea  -- 5. Types of hakwon education -- 6. Elementary School Years -- 7.Middle School Years -- 8. High School Years -- 9. Good and Bad Effects of hakwon education -- 10. Hakwon education as a Worldwide Curriculum Question -- 11. Conclusion: Questions without organs -- 12. Epilogue: Simulacra and Dangerous future. .
This book enables Western scholars and educators to recognize the roles and contributions of shadow education/hakwon education in an international context. The book allows readers to redefine the traditional and limited understanding of the background success behind Korean schooling and to expand their perspectives on Korean hakwon education, as well as shadow education in other nations with educational power, such as Japan, China, Singapore, and Taiwan. Kim exhorts readers and researchers to examine shadow education as an emerging research inquiry in the context of postcolonial and worldwide curriculum studies.
School management and organization.
School administration.
Ethnology-Asia.
Sociology.
Educational sociology.
Curriculums (Courses of study).
Education-Curricula.
Ethnicity.
Administration, Organization and Leadership.
Asian Culture.
Sociology, general.
Sociology of Education.
Curriculum Studies.
Ethnicity Studies.