Between Self and Community: Children's Personhood in a Globalized South Korea.

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 shows how both children and teachers interactively navigate, construct, and reconstruct their ow...

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Main Author: Ahn, Junehui
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Rutgers University Press, 2023.
Series:Rutgers series in childhood studies.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary: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 shows how both children and teachers interactively navigate, construct, and reconstruct their own multifaceted and sometimes conflicting models of what makes "a good child" amid Korea's shifting educational and social contexts. Junehui Ahn details the conflicting and competing ways in which the ideologies of new personhood are enacted in actual everyday socialization contexts and reveals the confusions, dilemmas, and ruptures that occur when globally dominant ideals of childhood development are superimposed onto local experiences. Between Self and Community pays special attention to the way children, as active agents of socialization, create, construe, and sustain their own meanings of their personhood, thereby highlighting the dynamism children and their culturally rich peer world create in South Korea's shifting socialization terrain.
Item Description:Description based upon print version of record.
Physical Description:1 online resource (223 p.).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781978831414
1978831412
9781978831407
1978831404

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