Re-Evaluating Education in Japan and Korea: De-Mystifying Stereotypes

ISBN-13: 9780415595520 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 158 str.

Hyunjoon Park

Opis

Here, Hyunjoon Park puts the critical stereotypical views of education in Japan and Korea under the microscope to decipher whether or not they are true, or unfounded, based on empirical evidence which uses international student achievement data as its core.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Data and Educational Systems 3. Demystifying the stereotype – Do Japanese and Korean schools make talented students mediocre? 4. Demystifying the stereotype – do Japanese and Korean students achieve high test scores at the expense of creativity? 5. Demystifying the stereotype – are high test scores of Japanese and Korean students due to ‘shadow education’? 6. Demystifying the stereotype – are Japanese and Korean schools homogenous? 7. Conclusion – the troubling turn

O autorze

Hyunjoon Park is the Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Sociology and Education at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.