Finding a Child's Self: Globalization and the Hybridized Landscape of Korean Early Childhood Education

Junehui Ahn

doi:10.1111/aeq.12104

Finding a Child's Self: Globalization and the Hybridized Landscape of Korean Early Childhood Education

Junehui Ahn

Department of Urban Sociology

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This article examines how Korean early childhood education reform efforts to foster children's selves create a fragmented and conflicting educational landscape. I focus on the complex and uneven ways that imported educational ideals are practiced in local contexts. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a preschool in Seoul, I discuss discrepancies between reform ideals and actual everyday practices to highlight unevenness and nonlinearity of the global circulation of educational ideas.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	224-243
Number of pages	20
Journal	Anthropology and Education Quarterly
Volume	46
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.12104
State	Published - 1 Sep 2015

Keywords

Early childhood education
Globalization
Korea
Self

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