1st Edition

Modern Education, Textbooks, and the Image of the Nation Politics and Modernization and Nationalism in Korean Education: 1880-1910

By Yoonmi Lee Copyright 2000
    170 Pages
    by Routledge

    170 Pages
    by Routledge

    By reinterpreting the way that Korean reformers confronted the process of modernization/Westernization between 1880 and 1910, this study challenges the failure thesis which maintains that subsequent Japanese colonization is an indication that the early modernization process in Korea was unsuccessful.

    Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Theories; Chapter 3 The Emergence of Modernizers and Their Ideology; Chapter 4 The Politics of State Formation, Nation Building and Modern Education; Chapter 5 The Textbooks I; Chapter 6 The Textbooks II; Chapter 7 Conclusion;

    Biography

    Yoonmi Lee

    "...Lee's study focuses on mass education and its role in shaping new ideas about the nation and modernization...she offers interesting insights into the complex and contested area of politics and ideology in the waning years of the dynasty." -- Christine J. Kim, Pacific Affairs