South Korea's Education Exodus The Life and Times of Early Study Abroad / edited by Adrienne Lo, Nancy Abelmann, Soo Ah Kwon, and Sumie Okazaki.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lo, Adrienne, editor.

Series:

Center For Korea Studies Publications

Center for Korea Studies publications

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Korean students--Foreign countries.

Foreign study--Social aspects.

Foreign study.

Korea (South).

Physical Description:

340 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2015.

Summary:

South Korea's Education Exodus analyzes Early Study Abroad in relation to the neoliberalization of South Korean education and labor. With chapters based on demographic and survey data, discourse analysis, and ethnography in destinations such as Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, and the United States, the book considers the complex motivations that spur families of pre-college youth to embark on often arduous and expensive journeys. In addition to examining various forms and locations of study abroad, South Korea's Education Exodus discusses how students and families manage living and studying abroad in relation to global citizenship, language ideologies, social class, and race.

Contents:

Introduction : South Korea's education exodus : history, context, and motivations / Nancy Abelmann, Soo Ah Kwon, Adrienne Lo, and Sumie Okazaki

Early study abroad : a survey and demographic portrait / Chon Sun Ihm and Hee Jung Choi

The domestication of South Korean early study abroad in the first decade of the millennium / Jiyeon Kang and Nancy Abelmann

Going to school in New Zealand : hopes and limits in a transnational social field / Bon Giu Koo

School choice in the global schoolhouse : how Korean education migrants calibrate "success" in Singapore / Joseph Sung-Yul Park and Sohee Bae

The "other half" goes abroad : the perils of public schooling in Singapore / Jeehun Kim

Going global in comfort : South Korean education exodus in Singapore / Yoonhee Kang

From fob to cool : transnational migrant students in Toronto and the styling of global linguistic capital / Hyunjung Shin

Early wave returnees in Seoul : the dilemmas of modernity and morality / Adrienne Lo and Jenna Kim

The legal and religious citizenship of Korean transnational mothers / Kyungju Ahn

"We are more racist" : navigating race and racism in (Korean) America / Sohyun An Psychosocial Adjustments of South Korean Early Study Abroad Students / Sumie Okazaki, Anne Saw, and Jihee Cho

Coming to terms with our "Asian invasion" : a practitioner's perspective on the Korean education exodus in a Christian school setting / Rick Williams

My life in the States, alone / Namkyu Kang.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295806525

0295806524

OCLC:

935254876