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

by Yoonmi Lee

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138976290
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/15/2016
Series:	East Asia
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	170
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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;

Editorial Reviews

"...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

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