Higher Education in Korea - Tradition and Adaptation

This definitive collection takes an in-depth look at the higher education system in Korea. The editors and contributors present a fundamentally Korean view of the important issues for the Korean higher education system. In systematic, well written essays, they construct theoretical perspectives to analyze the development of the higher education system in Korea's competitive society, a project never before undertaken in the English language.

List of contents

Preface Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Historical Development Chapter 3 Curriculum and Management Chapter 4 The Entrance Examination System Chapter 5 Continuing Debates: Government Financial Aid to the Private Higher Education Sector and Faculty Tenure Chapter 6 Female Students and Faculty Chapter 7 The 31 May 1995 Higher Education Reform Chapter 8 Battlefield for Higher Education

About the author

Dr. John C. Weidman a Professor of Administrative and Policy Studies and Senior Associate in the Institute for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Dr. Weidman has also served as the UNESCO Chair of Higher Education at Maseno University College in Kenya. Dr. Namgi Park is the Vice President of Planning at Kwangju National Teachers university in Korea. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh and is a member of the Advisory Committee to the Minister of Education in Korea.

Summary

These essays describe the Korean higher education system, provide data heretofore unavailable in the English language, and present a fundamentally Korean view of the important issues in that country's higher education system.

Product details

• Authors: Namgi Park, Park Namgi, John Weidman, Weidman John
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.1999
• EAN: 9780815319573
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-1957-3
• No. of pages: 276
• Weight: 670 g
• Series: RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Korea, EDUCATION / Administration / General, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher