Full Description
South Korea's Education Exodus analyzes Early Study Abroad in relation to the neoliberalization of South Korean education and labor. With chapters based on demographic and survey data, discourse analysis, and ethnography in destinations such as Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, and the United States, the book considers the complex motivations that spur families of pre-college youth to embark on often arduous and expensive journeys. In addition to examining various forms and locations of study abroad, South Korea's Education Exodus discusses how students and families manage living and studying abroad in relation to global citizenship, language ideologies, social class, and race.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction: South Korea's Education Exodus
Part One The Lay of the Land
1. Early Study Abroad
2. The Domestication of South Korean Early Study Abroad in the First Decade of the Millennium
Part Two Navigating Class and the Global
3. Going to School in New Zealand
4. School Choice in the Global Schoolhouse
5. The "Other Half" Goes Abroad: The Perils of Public Schooling in Singapore
Part Three The Dilemmas of Global Citizenship
6. Going Global in Comfort
7. From FOB to Cool
8. Early Wave Returnees in Seoul
Part Four Managing Early Study Abroad
9. The Legal and Religious Citizenship of Korean Transnational Mothers
10. "We Are More Racist": Navigating Race and Racism in (Korean) America
11. Psychosocial Adjustments of South Korean Early Study Abroad Students
Part Five The Field Speaks
12. Coming to Terms with Our "Asian Invasion"
13. My Life in the States, Alone
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
