A Comparative Study of State Social Policies on Education and Its Shadow in South Korea and Iran
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12968809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Abbas Madandar Arani (Lorestan University, corresponding author), Young Chun Kim (Chinju National University of Education), Mohammad Jafari Malek (Islamic Azad University of Zanjan) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 80-80 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of European Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1918-7173 • E-ISSN: 1918-7181 |
| Publisher | Canadian Center of Science and Education (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5539/res.v9n1p80 |
| OpenAlex | W2561186194 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
Education and private tutoring activities particularly are under influence of state social policies. The paper uses term “social policy” to show macro social and political attitudes of each state toward education. This paper compares social policies concerning education and its shadow in six states of South Korea with their four counterparts in Iran from 1980 to 2010. An overview of each state’s policy in both countries provides two main similarities. First, during the last three decades, policies did not control the rapid expansion of the shadow education system. Second, the state policies indicated a contradictory situation which simultaneously limited and accelerated the expansion of private tutoring activities. Despite these similarities, state policies necessarily did not lead to the same results. While, change and transformation in the political structure in South Korea (i.e., from a totalitarian toward a neoliberal system) presumably has redefined the role of the shadow education system as a tool in the service of social and economic development of the country; In Iran, however, the political system, through a cyclical policy process (i.e., closed to semi-open to closed), seems to have accelerated a “brain drain” phenomenon as the outcome of private tutoring activities
Development economics · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Education policy · Higher education · Political science · Politics · Shadow (psychology · Social policy · State (computer science · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities · Psychology · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
Shadow education
Education reform policies and classroom teaching in South Korea
Education and social protection policies in OECD countries
Crafting and dismantling the egalitarian social contract
Khatami, political reform and education in Iran
Social Policy and State Capacity in Iran
The Rise of the Subcontractor State
South Korea at the Crossroads
Demography, Education, and Democracy
Concessions, Repression, and Political Protest in the Iranian Revolution
Private Tutoring and Demand for Education in South Korea
States and Social Policies
Shadow Education and Allocation in Formal Schooling
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |