No Alternative?: Experiments in South Korean Education examines
education beyond daytime K-16 schooling -- an escalating arena of education
spaces that we call non-mainstream or “other” education. These
other spaces have a complex and often ambivalent relationship with mainstream
schools. This volume includes chapters on private after-schooling, alternative
or second-chance schooling, home schooling, adult distance education, and
state-sponsored youth employment programs. The ethnographic case studies
that comprise this volume demonstrate that in these non-mainstream education
spaces, education producers and consumers often simultaneously reject or
exit mainstream schooling; and embrace or seek to attain the symbolic value
of mainstream education in South Korean society.
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