The Traditional Education of Korea
Author : Wan Gee Choi
Publisher : Ewha Womans University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,62 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 9788973006755
Korea; the Land, People, and Customs
Author : George Heber Jones
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,61 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781017474640
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Shadow Education and the Curriculum and Culture of Schooling in South Korea
Author : Young Chun Kim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 33,66 MB
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 1137513241
Book Description
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.
Higher Education in Korea
Author : Namgi Park
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 29,48 MB
Release : 2002-05-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 113558186X
Book Description
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.
Education Fever
Author : Michael J. Seth
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 10,12 MB
Release : 2002-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0824862309
Book Description
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.
Korean Education in Changing Economic and Demographic Contexts
Author : Hyunjoon Park
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 20,6 MB
Release : 2013-11-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9814451274
Book Description
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.
The Traditional Ships of Korea
Author : Wan Gee Choi
Publisher : Ewha Womans University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 35,75 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9788973006830
Book Description
Korean Higher Education
Author : Jeong-Kyu Lee
Publisher : 지문당
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,13 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Confucianism and education
ISBN :
Book Description
Sources of Korean Tradition: From early times through the sixteenth century
Author : Peter H. Lee
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 14,81 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Korea
ISBN : 9780231105668
Book Description
The Power of Nunchi
Author : Euny Hong
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 20,83 MB
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0143134469
Book Description
"A must-read for anyone interested in the art of intuitively knowing what others feel." --Haemin Sunim, bestselling author of The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down and Love for Imperfect Things Improve your nunchi. Improve your life. The Korean sixth sense for winning friends and influencing people, nunchi (pronounced noon-chee) can help you connect with others so you can succeed in everything from business to love. The Power of Nunchi will show you how. Have you ever wondered why your less-skilled coworker gets promoted before you, or why that one woman from your yoga class is always surrounded by adoring friends? They probably have great nunchi. The art of reading a room and understanding what others are thinking and feeling, nunchi is a form of emotional intelligence that anyone can learn--all you need are your eyes and ears. Sherlock Holmes has great nunchi. Cats have great nunchi. Steve Jobs had great nunchi. With its focus on observing others rather than asserting yourself--it's not all about you!--nunchi is a refreshing antidote to our culture of self-promotion, and a welcome reminder to look up from your cell phone. Nunchi has been used by Koreans for more than 5,000 years. It's what catapulted their nation from one of the world's poorest to one of the richest and most technologically advanced in half a century. And it's why K-pop--an unlikely global phenomenon, performed as it is in a language spoken only in Korea--is even a thing. Not some quaint Korean custom like taking off your shoes before entering a house, nunchi is the currency of life. The Power of Nunchi will show you how the trust and connection it helps you to build can open doors for you that you never knew existed. A PENGUIN LIFE TITLE
