Title: No alternative? : experiments in South Korean education /
Authors: Abelmann, Nancy.; Choi, Jung-Ah.; Park, So Jin, 1968-; Abelmann, Nancy,; Choi, Jung-Ah,; Park, So Jin, 1968-
Publisher: Global, Area, and International Archive, University of California Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Education Korea (South); Alternative education Korea (South); Alternative education; Education; Korea (South)
Abstract: 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.
Contents: Educational transformation. South Korea's educational exceptionalism / Michael Seth -- South Korea's "school collapse" debates / Jae Hoon Lim -- Alternative education. A second-chance high school : students' second-class internalization and stratification / Jung-ah Choi -- Homeschooling adventures of the middle class / Deok-Hee Seo -- Overcoming the "pseudo-university" : the transformative learning of adult women / Kiyeon Yi -- Supplementary education. Private institutes as educational sedatives / Misook Kim -- Mothers' anxious management of the private after-school education market / So Jin Park.