Shadow Education and the Curriculum and Culture of Schooling in South Korea

• Main Author: Kim, Young Chun (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Series: Curriculum Studies Worldwide
• Subjects: Education.; Ethnology > Asia.; Curriculums (Courses of study).; Education > Curricula.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Educational sociology.; Sociology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Ethnicity.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Asian Culture.; Sociology, general.; Sociology of Education.; Curriculum Studies.; Ethnicity Studies.
• Physical Description: XXV, 211 p. 8 illus., 6 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9781137513243

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.