caps-news: today - "Shared Youth Predicaments: Education Notes Among South Korea, Finland, and the US"

[Lori OHollaren]

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Monday, April 8, 2013
Myung Sup Lim Lecture Series in Korean Studies
"Shared Youth Predicaments: Education Notes Among South Korea, Finland, and the US"
Nancy Abelmann, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research - Humanities, Arts, and Related Fields;  Harry E. Preble Professor, Anthropology, Asian American Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois
Gerlinger Lounge
4:00 pm

Increasingly today individuals and states take stock of how other people educate their children. In this vein anthropologist Ann Anagnost aptly describes a “transnational network of gazes at the children of other nations.” South Koreans have long looked to the U.S. as an educational other – a gaze that came to new life as more and more children and families joined a project of educational exodus  beginning in the late 1990s and peaking in the first decade of the 2000s. Interestingly, however, in recent years South Korean education has become an object of the U.S. gaze and seems to be President Obama’s favorite educational other. But the picture is not so simple: just as the U.S. has long debated educational equity and achievement so too has South Korea. And recently Finland seems to be on everyone’s map as the “happy alternative.” Abelmann examines the contours of this “conversation” in relation to developments in South Korean contemporary education, including particularly the motivations and experiences of educational migrants.


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