1st Edition
Re-Evaluating Education in Japan and Korea De-mystifying Stereotypes
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
Biography
Hyunjoon Park is the Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Sociology and Education at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.
"The book certainly has provided a solid empirical ground for much-needed myth-busting work from a macro, systemic point of view." - Keita Takayama and Youl-Kwan Sung, School of Education, University of New England, Australia, Graduate School of Education, Kyung Hee University, South Korea, Asia Pacific Journal of Education
