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Taking 'Asia as method' seriously in decolonizing comparative curriculum studies in South Korea.
- Source :
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Journal of Curriculum Studies . Apr2024, Vol. 56 Issue 2, p207-219. 13p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- This conceptual article is to problematize Western-centered comparative curriculum studies in South Korea, drawing on research related to postcolonial criticisms of comparative education and curriculum studies, and to suggest a decolonial research imagination for comparative curriculum research in South Korea and East Asia broadly, based on Kuan-Hsing Chen's idea of Asia as method. To this end, I elaborate on Chen's concepts of inter-referencing and critical syncretism for decolonizing the compliant research imagination. Additionally, I argue for the shift of the point of reference towards Asia, the extension of curriculum manifestation as a unit of comparison with curriculum conceptualized as a space for constructing cultural imaginary and subjectivity, and curriculum researchers' onto-epistemological considerations as a comparativist. I conclude the paper with a caution not to dismiss Western contributions to curriculum research in Asia and the possibilities of the existence of resistance to Western-dominant knowledge structure in South Korean curriculum scholarship in the forms of translation and/or hybridity. This study can contribute to decolonizing the intersection of comparative education and curriculum studies that has been Western-centered in South Korea and suggesting a transgressive onto-epistemological orientation for comparative curriculum studies in the contexts of South Korea in particular and East Asia in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00220272
- Volume :
- 56
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Curriculum Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 176721749
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00220272.2024.2314585