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Park, Juyeon – Gender and Education, 2023
Using interviews with 74 Korean undergraduate students at ten elite U.S. colleges, I explore how intersections of gender and class decide who pursues transnational mobility and cosmopolitan life more successfully. Men from highly-transnational families tried to exert 'agency for becoming' while mapping out their 'choice biographies', aspiring and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Students, Study Abroad
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Kim, Sungwon; Zhang, Cong – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2022
International student mobility has been growing and reshaping the landscape of tertiary institutions. South Korea has one of the largest number of students going abroad for their studies worldwide, but their mobility trends have diversified recently with increasing regionalization and horizontal mobility. This study explores the factors behind…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, College Students, Student Attitudes
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Mijoo Kim; Samuel Russell Hodge – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative study rooted in the theory of planned behaviour (TpB) was to investigate South Korean physical education (PE) teachers' and female secondary school students' beliefs about girls' physical activity (PA) participation. Particular focus was given to the curricular and pedagogical factors influencing their engagement.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education Teachers, Physical Education, Secondary School Students
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Prescott, Julie, Ed. – IGI Global, 2016
Diversity in the workforce can be attributed to both a popular, cultural shift and legislative intervention. Despite these forces, discrimination endures in all aspects of Western society from education to employment. Unequal pay and opportunities for promotion are symptoms of a systematic discrimination of individuals based on race and gender.…
Descriptors: Diversity, Racial Discrimination, Gender Discrimination, Social Change
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Kim, Jongyoung – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2011
This study aims to understand Korean students' motivations for studying in US graduate schools. For this purpose, I conducted in-depth interviews with 50 Korean graduate students who were enrolled in a research-centered US university at the time of the interview. In these interviews, I sought to understand how their motivations are connected not…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Higher Education, Social Class, Global Education