Full 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.
Contents
1. Preface 2. Prologue 3. PISA, Korean students' world-class achievements and Dark side of Korean schooling 4. History of Shadow Education in Korea 5. Types of hakwon education6. Elementary School Years7. Middle School Years8. High School Years9. Good and Bad Effects of hakwon Education 10. Hakwon Education as a Worldwide Curriculum Question11. Conclusion: Questions Without Organs12. Epilogue: Simulacra and Dangerous Future
