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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460309503321

Titolo

South Korea's Education Exodus : The Life and Times of Early Study Abroad / / edited by Adrienne Lo, Nancy Abelmann, Soo Ah Kwon, and Sumie Okazaki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-295-80652-4

Descrizione fisica

340 p

Collana

Center for Korea Studies publications

Disciplina

378.1/98269105195

Soggetti

Korean students - Foreign countries

Foreign study - Social aspects

Foreign study

Foreign study - Social aspects - Korea (South)

Foreign study - Korea (South)

Electronic books.

Korea (South)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : South Korea's education exodus : history, context, and motivations / Nancy Abelmann, Soo Ah Kwon, Adrienne Lo, and Sumie Okazaki -- Early study abroad : a survey and demographic portrait / Chon Sun Ihm and Hee Jung Choi -- The domestication of South Korean early study abroad in the first decade of the millennium / Jiyeon Kang and Nancy Abelmann -- Going to school in New Zealand : hopes and limits in a transnational social field / Bon Giu Koo -- School choice in the global schoolhouse : how Korean education migrants calibrate "success" in Singapore / Joseph Sung-Yul Park and Sohee Bae -- The "other half" goes abroad : the perils of public schooling in Singapore / Jeehun Kim -- Going global in comfort : South Korean education exodus in Singapore / Yoonhee Kang -- From fob to cool : transnational migrant students in Toronto and the styling of global linguistic capital / Hyunjung Shin -- Early wave returnees in Seoul : the dilemmas of modernity and morality / Adrienne Lo and Jenna Kim --



The legal and religious citizenship of Korean transnational mothers / Kyungju Ahn -- "We are more racist" : navigating race and racism in (Korean) America / Sohyun An Psychosocial Adjustments of South Korean Early Study Abroad Students / Sumie Okazaki, Anne Saw, and Jihee Cho -- Coming to terms with our "Asian invasion" : a practitioner's perspective on the Korean education exodus in a Christian school setting / Rick Williams -- My life in the States, alone / Namkyu Kang.