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Good Things from Both Worlds and the Dilemmas They Pose: The Case of a Childcare Cooperative Movement in South Korea
Author(s) -
Lee Boomi,
Lee SooJung
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
ethos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.783
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1548-1352
pISSN - 0091-2131
DOI - 10.1111/etho.12288
Subject(s) - socialization , ethnography , independence (probability theory) , institution , sociology , sociality , dual (grammatical number) , hierarchy , social psychology , psychology , social science , political science , law , anthropology , art , ecology , statistics , mathematics , literature , biology
This article examines the educational practices of an alternative childcare institution, the Communal Childcare Cooperative (CCC), in South Korea, which consciously attempts to combine the good sides of the two worlds, those of a traditional Korea and those of the West. Based on ethnographic research in a branch of the institution, we pay particular attention to the dual educational goal for independence and relationality and their pedagogical corollary regarding peer dynamics. Through an ethnographic episode that illustrates the CCC educators’ efforts to realize the dual goal, we identify two major dilemmas with important ethnographic and theoretical implications: one about the socialization of independence and affective relationality, both derived from the cultural conception of mind‐heart ( maum ), and the other about the socialization of sociality centering on the contrast between hierarchy and equality. [socialization, independence, affective relationality, peer dynamics, South Korea] Abstract in Korean : (), () ‘’ . ‘’ ‘ ’ , . . , . ‘’ , . , , . .