Modern Education, Textbooks and the Image of the Nation: Politics of Modernization and Nationalism in Korean Education, 1880-1910

ISBN-13: 9780815338741 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 170 str.

Yoonmi Lee

Opis

This book challenges the 'failure thesis' which maintains that Japanese colonisation is an indication that the early modernisation process in Korea was unsucessful.

Recenzje

"...Lee's study focuses on mass education and its role in shaping new ideas about the nation and modernization...she offers interesting insights into the complex and contested area of politics and ideology in the waning years of the dynasty." -- Christine J. Kim, Pacific Affairs

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Theories; Chapter 3 The Emergence of Modernizers and Their Ideology; Chapter 4 The Politics of State Formation, Nation Building and Modern Education; Chapter 5 The Textbooks I; Chapter 6 The Textbooks II; Chapter 7 Conclusion;

O autorze

Yoonmi Lee