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The Nurturing of a Communal Self in an Elementary School Home Class: A Case of the Innovation School Movement in South Korea
Author(s) -
Son Sungkyu
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.12289
Subject(s) - nature versus nurture , sociality , creativity , class (philosophy) , unit (ring theory) , sociology , interpersonal communication , psychology , pedagogy , social psychology , mathematics education , social science , ecology , artificial intelligence , computer science , anthropology , biology
This article examines the educational practices of elementary schooling in South Korea, especially the case of the recent “innovation school ( hyeoksinhakgyo )” movement in the public school system. In particular, the educational unit of the home class, called “ ban ,” has been strengthened in innovation schools to nurture, simultaneously, communality and creativity among students. By presenting ethnographic scenes from a sixth‐grade home class, I seek to show how the sociality of the home class is organized, and interpersonal behaviors are regulated by the teacher to nurture interdependence among the students, interdependence as a crucial foundation for creativity learning and community spirit in the ban. I also attend to the children's responses and reactions to the organizing and regulating of their peer relationships, especially when equality is imposed as a paramount value in peer sociality. [Interdependence, Peer Group, Schooling, Home Class, South Korea] Abstract in Korean 2010 . ‘’ . , , ‐ , . , . , . . , .