Education Fever Society, Politics, and the Pursuit of Schooling in South Korea
| Author/creator | Seth, Michael J., 1948- Author |
| Other author | EBSCO Publishing (Firm) |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press |
| Description | 320 p. 23.000 x 015.000 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Education Research Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Hawaii Studies on Korea |
| Summary | Annotation "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 standards, 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."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2002004189 |
| ISBN | 9780824825348 |
| ISBN | 0824825349 (Trade Cloth) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780824825348 |
| Stock number | 00027181 |
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