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Education Fever - Society, Politics and the Pursuit of Schooling in South Korea (Hardcover)
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Education Fever - Society, Politics and the Pursuit of Schooling in South Korea (Hardcover)
Series: Hawaii Studies on Korea
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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.
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