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Finding a Child's Self: Globalization and the Hybridized Landscape of K orean Early Childhood Education
Author(s) -
Ahn Junehui
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12104
Subject(s) - ethnography , sociology , globalization , early childhood education , early childhood , gender studies , pedagogy , political science , psychology , developmental psychology , anthropology , law
This article examines how K orean early childhood education reform efforts to foster children's selves create a fragmented and conflicting educational landscape. I focus on the complex and uneven ways that imported educational ideals are practiced in local contexts. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a preschool in S eoul, I discuss discrepancies between reform ideals and actual everyday practices to highlight unevenness and nonlinearity of the global circulation of educational ideas.