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No Alternative? examines education in South Korea beyond daytime K-16 schooling—an escalating phenomenon in an increasingly neoliberal and globalizing society. Ethnographic portraits of private after-schooling, alternative schooling, home schooling, and adult distance education reveal that education producers and consumers often reject mainstream education while simultaneously seeking or embracing its symbolic value.
Price: $24.95
Pages: 172
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Seoul-California Series in Korean Studies
Publication Date:
15 December 2013
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520289802
Format: Paperback
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Nancy Abelmann is Harry E. Preble Professor and associate vice chancellor for research (humanities, arts, and related fields) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jung-ah Choi is an assistant professor at Governors State University; So Jin Park is a research fellow at the Institute for Social Development Studies at Yonsei University.