Description: No Alternative? examines education in South Korea beyond daytime K-16 schooling--an escalating phenomenon in an increasingly neoliberal and globalizing society. Ethnographic portraits of private after-schooling, alternative schooling, home schooling, and adult distance education reveal that education producers and consumers often reject mainstream education while simultaneously seeking or embracing its symbolic value.
Review Quotes: "The textured descriptions of such disaffected educational consumers make No Alternative? an important contribution to the research literature."--Christopher Bjork"Journal of Asian Studies" (01/27/2014)