After Liberation in 1945, the concept of democracy was introduced to southern Korea through discursively contested representations formulated by the American occupation authorities and Koreans on the political left and right. One of the main fields of contestation was in education as the Americans and Koreans advanced their own interpretations of democratic education that addressed the relationship between the individual and the state. The American perspective on democratic education was grounded in the progressive ideals sweeping the United States. However, progressivism contained an inherent contradiction as it attempted the depoliticization of education while protecting colonial-era collaborators and enforcing anti-communism. The leftwing liberal Korean perspective challenged the social and economic contradictions inherited from the colonial period by critiquing bourgeois individualism in favor of a socially-oriented democratic education. The right-wing conservative Korean position was divided between the New Education movement and democratic nationalist education, but the latter emerged as the dominant education philosophy of the Republic of Korea. Democratic nationalist education under An Ho-sang pushed an ultranationalist agenda that submerged individualism in favor of the state but ultimately dismayed the American occupation officials who had previously overseen education reform. The discourse of democracy in the post-Liberation period initiated an evolutionary process of democratic development that has continued through modern Korean history up to the present day.
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Abstract DISCOURSE OF DEMOCRACY IN KOREAN EDUCATION THE AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE ON DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION DOMINANCE OF AMERICAN PROGRESSIVISM LEFT-WING LIBERAL KOREAN PERSPECTIVE ON DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION RIGHT-WING CONSERVATIVE KOREAN PERSPECTIVE ON DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION CONCLUSION REFERENCES
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South KoreaAmerican occupationeducationdemocracydiscourse
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HOWARD KAHM [ An assistant professor at the Underwood International College, Yonsei University, Korea. ]
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