South Korea's Education Exodus: The Life and Times of Early Study Abroad

by Adrienne Lo (Editor), Nancy Abelmann (Editor), Soo Ah Kwon (Editor), Sumie Okazaki (Editor)

Overview

South Korea's Education Exodus analyzes Early Study Abroad in relation to the neoliberalization of South Korean education and labor. With chapters based on demographic and survey data, discourse analysis, and ethnography in destinations such as Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, and the United States, the book considers the complex motivations that spur families of pre-college youth to embark on often arduous and expensive journeys. In addition to examining various forms and locations of study abroad, South Korea's Education Exodus discusses how students and families manage living and studying abroad in relation to global citizenship, language ideologies, social class, and race.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780295994918
Publisher:	University of Washington Press
Publication date:	07/01/2015
Series:	Center For Korea Studies Publications
Pages:	362
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Adrienne Lo is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Nancy Abelmann is the Harry E. Preble Professor of Anthropology, Asian American Studies, and East Asian Languages and Cultures and an associate vice chancellor of research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Soo Ah Kwon is associate professor of Asian American studies and human and community development at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sumie Okazaki is professor of applied psychology in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Introduction: South Korea’s Education Exodus

Part One | The Lay of the Land

1. Early Study Abroad

2. The Domestication of South Korean Early Study Abroad in the First Decade of the Millennium

Part Two | Navigating Class and the Global

3. Going to School in New Zealand

4. School Choice in the Global Schoolhouse

5. The “Other Half” Goes Abroad: The Perils of Public Schooling in Singapore

Part Three | The Dilemmas of Global Citizenship

6. Going Global in Comfort

7. From FOB to Cool

8. Early Wave Returnees in Seoul

Part Four | Managing Early Study Abroad

9. The Legal and Religious Citizenship of Korean Transnational Mothers

10. “We Are More Racist”: Navigating Race and Racism in (Korean) America

11. Psychosocial Adjustments of South Korean Early Study Abroad Students

Part Five | The Field Speaks

12. Coming to Terms with Our “Asian Invasion”

13. My Life in the States, Alone

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Editorial Reviews

South Korea’s Education Exodus provides readers with rich narratives centering on Early Study Abroad (ESA) as a lens through which one can understand not only the inner workings of ESA but its intimate connections with broader structural factors.... [A] useful resource in undergraduate courses on modern and contemporary Korea, international education, inter-Asia cultural studies, multiculturalism, and globalization.

Journal of Asian Studies - Hyaeweol Choi