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

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ISBN: 9780815338741 | 0815338740
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Copyright: 8/22/2000

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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.

Preface and Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction: Problems, Issues and Method

(16)

Modernization and the Question of Western Hegemony

(1)

Education: Old and New

(3)

Theories of Non-Western Modernization Applied to Korea at the Turn of the Century

(2)

The Politics of Modern Nationalism and Education In Korea: The Nature of the Argument

(6)

Modern Nationalism

(3)

The Modernizers and Their Ideology

(1)

The ``Recontextualized'' Discourses of National Identity and the Textbooks

(2)

Methodology: Interpretive Historical Sociology

(1)

The Outline of the Argument: The Chapters

(3)

Theories: Modern Mass Education and the Construction of National Identity

(20)

The Interstate System and Modern Mass Education

(2)

State Formation, National Identity and the Politics of Education

(18)

Internal Dynamics, State Formation and National Education Building

(4)

Nation Building and the Politics of Nationalism

(5)

National Identity and the Politics of Education

(9)

The Emergence of the Modernizers and Their Ideology: Crisis, Redefinition of Civilization and Education

(28)

Traditional Society, Frustrations and Aspirations: The Modernizers and Shilhak

(5)

The Crisis and the Redefinition of Civilization: Social Darwinism, Nationalism and Education

(23)

Darwinism in the West and in East Asia

(6)

Social Darwinism, Nationalism, Education in Korea

(9)

Gradualism, Optimism, and the New Education

(6)

The Politics of State Formation, Nation Building and Modern Education

(26)

Traditionalism Versus Modernization: The Confucianists, Tonghaks and the Modernizers

(4)

The Politics and Education Before 1905

(11)

Modernization and the Politics of Modern Education

(7)

The Modern Education System After the Kabo Reform

(4)

The Politics and Education After 1905

(11)

Education and the Self-Strengthening Movement

(4)

The Private School Law and the Textbook Policy

(7)

The Textbooks I: The (Re)Construction of ``the Ethnic'' or Cultural Purity

(18)

The Textbooks: 1894-1910

(3)

Modern Nationhood and the Search for Cultural Purity

(15)

The Redefinition of Civilization

(3)

Reconstructing the Image of the State

(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

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

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