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Between Self and Community investigates the early childhood socialization process in a rapidly changing, globalizing South Korea. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in a South Korean preschool, it examines how both children and teachers interactively navigate, construct, and reconstruct their own multifaceted and sometimes conflicting models of “a good child” amid Korea’s shifting educational and social contexts.
List of contents
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1 Introduction: A Journey into the Shifting South Korean Socialization Landscape
2 New Personhood and Transformation of South Korean Early Childhood Socialization
3 "Why Don't We Find a Unique Self Concept Developing in Our Children?": The Heterogeneous and Conflicting Socialization Landscape
4 "I Want to Copy My Best Friend's Artwork": Expressions and Social Relationships in Children's Peer World
5 "Maybe We're Not Wrong": Communal Creativity and Multidirectionality of Learning
6 Conclusion: A Journey and Beyond
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
About the author
JUNEHUI AHN is professor of urban sociology at the University of Seoul in South Korea. This is her first book.
Summary
Investigates the early childhood socialization process in a globalizing South Korea. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in a South Korean preschool, the book shows how both children and teachers interactively navigate, construct, and reconstruct their own multifaceted and sometimes conflicting models of what makes ‘a good child’.
