Modern Education, Textbooks, and the Image of the Nation: Politics and Modernization and Nationalism in Korean Education: 1880-1910

by Lee,Yoonmi

• ISBN13: 9780815338741
• ISBN10: 0815338740
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-08-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

By reinterpreting the way that Korean reformers confronted the process of modernization/Westernization between 1880 and 1910, this study challenges the "failure thesis" which maintains that subsequent Japanese colonization is an indication that the early modernization process in Korea was unsuccessful.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction: Problems, Issues and Method	1	(16)
Modernization and the Question of Western Hegemony	1	(1)
Education: Old and New	2	(3)
Theories of Non-Western Modernization Applied to Korea at the Turn of the Century	5	(2)
The Politics of Modern Nationalism and Education In Korea: The Nature of the Argument	7	(6)
Modern Nationalism	7	(3)
The Modernizers and Their Ideology	10	(1)
The ``Recontextualized'' Discourses of National Identity and the Textbooks	11	(2)
Methodology: Interpretive Historical Sociology	13	(1)
The Outline of the Argument: The Chapters	14	(3)
Theories: Modern Mass Education and the Construction of National Identity	17	(20)
The Interstate System and Modern Mass Education	17	(2)
State Formation, National Identity and the Politics of Education	19	(18)
Internal Dynamics, State Formation and National Education Building	19	(4)
Nation Building and the Politics of Nationalism	23	(5)
National Identity and the Politics of Education	28	(9)
The Emergence of the Modernizers and Their Ideology: Crisis, Redefinition of Civilization and Education	37	(28)
Traditional Society, Frustrations and Aspirations: The Modernizers and Shilhak	37	(5)
The Crisis and the Redefinition of Civilization: Social Darwinism, Nationalism and Education	42	(23)
Darwinism in the West and in East Asia	44	(6)
Social Darwinism, Nationalism, Education in Korea	50	(9)
Gradualism, Optimism, and the New Education	59	(6)
The Politics of State Formation, Nation Building and Modern Education	65	(26)
Traditionalism Versus Modernization: The Confucianists, Tonghaks and the Modernizers	65	(4)
The Politics and Education Before 1905	69	(11)
Modernization and the Politics of Modern Education	69	(7)
The Modern Education System After the Kabo Reform	76	(4)
The Politics and Education After 1905	80	(11)
Education and the Self-Strengthening Movement	80	(4)
The Private School Law and the Textbook Policy	84	(7)
The Textbooks I: The (Re)Construction of ``the Ethnic'' or Cultural Purity	91	(18)
The Textbooks: 1894-1910	91	(3)
Modern Nationhood and the Search for Cultural Purity	94	(15)
The Redefinition of Civilization	95	(3)
Reconstructing the Image of the State	98	(4)
The Foundation Myths and the Common Origin	102	(1)
The Construction of Heroes	103	(6)
The Textbooks II: Constructing a Nation in ``Their Own Image''	109	(16)
Hegemony and the ``Discursive Devices''	109	(11)
Interpreting Western ``Modernity'' and Views on Imperialism	110	(2)
In Search of a New Social Order: Capitalism, Social Classes, and the Nation	112	(3)
Regenerating the Nation: Gender, Modernization and Nationalism	115	(5)
Contradictions of Modernization: Nationalism Versus Asianism	120	(5)
Conclusion	125	(12)
The Argument: Modernization, Nationalism, and Modern Education	125	(7)
The Implications and the Legacy: Colonialism, National Identity and Education	132	(5)
Bibliography	137	(20)
Index	157