Individualization, Peer Learning, and the Cultural Model of Sociality in South Korean Education: The Case of an Educational Metaphor

This article, based on interviews with teachers and classroom observations, examines the contour of the educational reform for individualization over twenty years in South Korean schooling. By way of an educational metaphor implicated in shifting dynamics between two competing yet complementary cult...

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Veröffentlicht in:Ethos (Berkeley, Calif.) Calif.), 2021-03, Vol.49 (1), p.53-71
1. Verfasser: Jung, Hyang Jin
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Zusammenfassung:This article, based on interviews with teachers and classroom observations, examines the contour of the educational reform for individualization over twenty years in South Korean schooling. By way of an educational metaphor implicated in shifting dynamics between two competing yet complementary cultural models of sociality and human development, I attempt a historically nuanced analysis of an interdependence orientation manifest in South Korean schooling. In so doing, I closely attend to how a cultural model of sociality strongly associated with peer learning is reassessed, re‐activated, or even accentuated to nurture individuality and self‐expression. The focus of inquiry is the cultural organization of peer learning and the underpinning cultural model of sociality in the context of the home class, the latter being an organizational pivot in South Korean schooling. [Individualization, peer learning, cultural models, home class, South Korea] in Korean 이 논문은 교실관찰 및 교사면담 자료에 근거하여 한국 교육에서 지난 20여년 간 개별화를 위한 교육개혁이 전개되어온 양상을 검토한다. 콩나물 키우기 비유와 연관된 교육적 실천에서 사회성에 대한 두 문화모델, 즉 가족모델과 마을모델 사이의 역동이 어떻게 변화해왔는지를 살펴보고 한국 교육의 주요한 특징인 상호의존성에 대해 통시적으로 분석한다. 특히 두 문화모델 중에서 마을모델이 또래관계와 긴밀히 연결되어 개별성과 자기표현을 위해 재활성화되고 심화되기까지 하는 점에 주의를 기울인다. 연구의 초점은 한국 학교교육의 중심 조직인 담임학급에서 이루어지는 또래학습과 그것의 토대가 되는 사회성의 문화모델이다.
ISSN:0091-2131
1548-1352
DOI:10.1111/etho.12295