Title: Multicultural Education in South Korea: Language, ideology, and culture in Korean language arts education
Abstract: This book examines political, ideological, and socio-cultural politics underlying 2009 National Multicultural Curriculum Reform and recent multicultural education policies in South Korea. Unlike conservative groups in Western countries who argue that supporting cultural diversity and cultural rights of minority groups balkanizes ethnic differences and divides community, New Rights and conservative groups in South Korea have been very supportive of multicultural discourses and practices and have created many multicultural policy agendas geared toward ushering in what have they called the multicultural era.
Through Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of government multicultural policy documents, a range of media sources, 2009 national curriculum reform policy documents, and 200 Korean language arts textbooks from 23 textbook publishers, Multicultural Education in South Korea: Language, ideology, and culture in Korean language arts education examines how conservative Korean government’s interpretation and practices of multiculturalism have been infiltrated and challenged by progressive and migrant-led agents/agencies. The analysis of academic, official, and popular discourses on migrant Others is focused on, but not limited to:
The multicultural era and struggles for hegemonic power;
Politics of multicultural knowledge control in education and society;
Formation of discourses on multicultural society and multicultural education;
Examining national curriculum: The politics of representing migrant Others; and
The hidden curriculum of multicultural education: Limitations and possibilities.
The author’s insightful discussion on politics of knowledge, education, and teaching in multicultural societies will prove particularly useful to policy makers, think-tank officials, and academic scholars in education.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-11-13
Language: en
Type: book
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