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Direct linkByean, Hyera – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2015
Drawing upon the experiences and dilemmas of the author, a middle school English teacher in South Korea, this article illuminates the ways in which neoliberal reforms in education intersect with English, and how such links have entailed the class-based polarization of education in Korean society. Given the prominent role that English plays in…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Middle School Teachers
Sung, Youl-Kwan – Comparative Education, 2011
This paper examines the politics of policy-borrowing in Korean education. I use the term "loanwords" as a metaphor for the practice in some Korean educational sectors of using borrowed English-origin educational rhetoric to create actual policy reform. I argue that discourses of choice and diversity, as loanwords, are initially…
Descriptors: High Schools, Figurative Language, Foreign Countries, Linguistic Borrowing
