Editors:
- Features 10 papers that examine recent changes in the economic and demographic environments of Korea and their effects on Korean education
- Examines ways an educational system has sought to handle the challenges posed by rising immigration and the emerging knowledge-based economy
- Places educational issues in an Asian society in a broad context of societal changes and their consequences — will be of interest to researchers and the general public outside of Korea in an attempt to understand their own educational systems in comparative perspective
Part of the book series: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects (EDAP, volume 23)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Current Contours of Korean Education
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Educational Reforms in a Changing Economy
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Demographic Changes and Educational Challenges
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About this book
This edited volume offers a comprehensive survey of Korean education in transition. Divided into three parts, the book first assesses the current state of Korean education. It examines how the educational system handles the effects of family background and gender in helping students smoothly transition from school to the labor market.
Next, the book introduces growing concerns over whether the traditional model of Korean education can adequately meet the demands of the emerging knowledge-based economy. It examines features of new reform measures that have been introduced to help Korean education prepare students for the new economy.
The third part discusses how an influx of diverse migrant groups, including marriage migrants, migrant workers, and North Korean migrants, and the rising divorce rate — two major demographic changes— challenge the fundamental assumption of cultural homogeneity that has long been a part of Korean education.
This detailed analysis of a society and educational system in transition will appeal to a wide range of readers, from those involved with Korean education to educators and administrators in countries currently looking for ways to handle their own economic and demographic changes.
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Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Hyunjoon Park
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Department of Education, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)
Kyung-keun Kim
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Korean Education in Changing Economic and Demographic Contexts
Editors: Hyunjoon Park, Kyung-keun Kim
Series Title: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4451-27-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-4451-26-0Published: 09 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1325-6Published: 18 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-981-4451-27-7Published: 24 November 2013
Series ISSN: 1573-5397
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9791
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 209
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: International and Comparative Education, Sociology of Education, Educational Policy and Politics