Modern Education, Textbooks, and the Image of the Nation

By reinterpreting the way that Korean reformers confronted the process of modernization/Westernization between 1880 and 1910, this study challenges the failure thesis which maintains that subsequent Japanese colonization is an indication that the early modernization process in Korea was unsuccessful.

Yoonmi Lee

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Theories; Chapter 3 The Emergence of Modernizers and Their Ideology; Chapter 4 The Politics of State Formation, Nation Building and Modern Education; Chapter 5 The Textbooks I; Chapter 6 The Textbooks II; Chapter 7 Conclusion;