Jung-Hoon Jung

• PhD
• Research Professor at Pusan National University

Terms such as “decolonization” have become commonplace in the social sciences, including educational studies. However, these terms are often romanticized or reduced to catchphrases in academic discourse, leading to what can be viewed as the “trivialization of postcolonialism.” Despite the call to decolonize educational practices and research, atten...

This book advances new ways of thinking about emergence and impact of Itinerant Curriculum Theory (ICT).Written by authors based in Algeria, Brazil, Chile, China, Estonia, South Korea, Spain and the USA, the chapters examine the opportunities and challenges paved by ICT in the struggle to open up and decolonize curriculum policies. The contributors...

Research on post-colonial curricula in non-Western countries continues to expand, with contributions from many scholars around the world. Many of these authors argue that post-colonial theories and the implications of those theories can help elucidate how colonial hegemony and ideology have affected the dominant discourse regarding curriculum studi...

Transboundary learning cultures and schooling (TLCS) researchers are devoted to doing transcultural, transdisciplinary, and trans-paradigmatic research in each Asia-Pacific country and region. Glocalization and the COVID-19 pandemic initiated and have transformed learning and teaching spaces, integrating daytime schooling and shadow education, indi...

Teamwork is a strategy for successful learning. With the Coronavirus outbreak, many universities began to rely on synchronous video conferencing and/or metaverse platforms. This study examines the difference between undergraduate students’ perceptions and experiences of teamwork on Zoom and Gather.Town. A mixed-method comparative case study was con...

Shadow education has become a worldwide phenomenon and therefore must be considered when exploring student learning and the ecology of education. The phenomenon has mainly been studied in the fields of comparative education, sociology of education, education and policy, and lifelong education. Relatively few scholars in the field of curriculum stud...

In the digital age, education through the Internet becomes a new form of teaching and learning, which leaves many challenges as well as possibilities for teachers and students. In this study, we analyzed the effective practices for online learning comparing schools and private supplementary tutoring. South Korea is an appropriate country for this i...

In the digital age, education through the Internet becomes a new form of teaching and learning, which leaves many challenges as well as possibilities for teachers and students. In this study, we analyzed the effective practices for online learning comparing schools and private supplementary tutoring. South Korea is an appropriate country for this i...

Objectives This study was to understand how creative experience activities are currently being operated in elementary schools and to find ways of the effective application and improvement of the creative experience activities of 2022 Revised Curriculum. In particular, the purpose of this study was to focus on how the domain and content of creative...

Informed by Patti Lather’s notion of ‘research as praxis,’ the purpose of this article is to provide the meaning of teaching qualitative research in South Korea wherein whose academic culture has been highly influenced, if not dominated, by the West. In this respect, the authors conceptualize the experiences of teaching qualitative research to unde...

This volume tackles perceived myths surrounding the academic excellence of East Asian students, and moves beyond Western understandings to offer in-depth analysis of the crucial role that shadow education plays in students’ academic success. Offering pioneering insights into the growing phenomenon of shadow education, this text offers: • New Post-...

Shadow education or private supplementary tutoring has become an international phenomenon as increasing numbers of students seek help beyond traditional schooling for academic achievement. e positive relationship between students' academic achievement and participation in shadow education has been previously reported. However, the manner in which s...

Shadow education contributes to the learning and academic careers of Korean students. It benefits, in particular, gifted students who are strongly motivated and who outperform their peers academically. In this study, we explored the innovative characteristics of shadow education curricula for gifted students in terms of curricular programmes, metho...

“Young Chun Kim and Jung-Hung Jung’s volume is an impressive exegesis on ways to think alternatively within the decolonial path. It is undeniably one of most powerful and brilliant approaches on ‘decoloniality otherwise’ in East Asia, which helps better understand the challenges decolonial thinkers faced in the struggle to open the canon of modern...

Chapter 2 provides a summary of the landscape of shadow education globally. It traces the historical development of the concept of shadow education, and highlights the concept’s ambiguities. Through a review of the scholarship, it also presents contemporary discourses about shadow education and summarizes the distinctive features of shadow educatio...

This chapter explores in greater detail the various forms of shadow education that exist in many countries. Categorizing them into five forms, the authors discuss each form’s characteristics in terms of their purpose, popularity in different countries, and strengths and weakness. Drawing from qualitative data collected during their own fieldwork in...

This chapter focuses on shadow education for mathematics. The authors examine the global popularity of shadow education for mathematics, discussing how crucial mathematics is for students’ academic success, and the difficulties of meeting individual student needs at public school. Within this context, the authors deliberate on why many students see...

This chapter focuses on shadow education for gifted and highly motivated students. The authors explain that little research exists on the topic because existing research on shadow education tends to take an educational equality perspective. In their effort to understand how gifted and highly motivated learners learn in shadow education spaces, the...

This chapter explores potential inquiry perspectives for research about shadow education. The authors propose a form of ‘nomadic inquiry,’ in which research not characterized by fidelity to a master narrative, but by transformations of concepts, ideas, and representations that welcome difference. Invoking shadow education as a text of ‘difference,’...

This chapter focuses on how shadow education contributes to students’ academic success. Drawing from prior research and their fieldwork, the authors provide an in-depth analysis of the academic benefits of shadow education. Student narratives highlight effective approaches used by shadow education institutions and tutors, and the authors’ discussio...

This chapter discusses the eroding status of public schooling as students’ reliance on it for their learning declines. The authors conceive of this phenomenon as ‘post-schooling.’ This chapter provides the definition of post-schooling, and describes its characteristics in terms of the roles of schooling and school teachers. Taking the students’ poi...

This chapter theorizes ‘shadow curriculum’ as a new definition of curriculum. Highlighting the confusing character of the notion of shadow education, the authors provide conceptual discussions about the term. Then, they discuss its limitations for the field of curriculum studies. The authors also describe how shadow curriculum differs from school c...

This chapter offers a much-needed discussion about why shadow education should be considered an important topic within curriculum studies. It provides an overview of students’ learning beyond schooling to contextualize the phenomenon of shadow education within the curriculum discourse. The authors examine characteristics of various concepts of curr...

This article presents a new conceptualization of ‘shadow curriculum’, one component of the worldwide phenomenon of shadow education, i.e. learning outside of school. Traditional conceptions of curriculum are not applicable to shadow education, and so this article begins by exploring how shadow education practices qualify as a new focus of curriculu...

Shadow education has been studied in areas such as comparative education, educational policy, sociology of education, education and economics, and lifelong education, but mainstream Anglophone curriculum studies have largely ignored this phenomenon. We argue that shadow education should be considered as an emerging (and significant) focus of curric...

This essay review critically engages Young Chun Kim's book, Shadow Education and the Curriculum and Culture of Schooling in South Korea, by responding to two central questions at its heart: What does decolonization of educational research mean and what does it look like? In what way can cultural studies of countries with histories of colonized educ...

In the book Educational Experience as Lived: Knowledge, History and Alterity, William F. Pinar enacts his intellectual history of curriculum studies, intersecting knowledge, history, and alterity. He explores eighteen concepts of education that characterize his life works. The main argument of this volume is the centrality of subjective reconstruct...

A sixteen-year-old boy who had the best academic achievement in his school threw himself off his apartment balcony on March 28, 2013. His Will said, “Mom, I cannot endure this pain anymore. My brain nibbles my heart. I am sorry” (Kim, 2013). A brain nibbling at a heart metaphorically expresses the tyranny of the pressure on students for academic ac...

The question at the heart of the book is what might an education with self-care and care-for-others look like? Juxtaposing self-understanding through the method of currere and the historical character of hakbeolism (a concept indigenous to Korea referring to a kind of social status people achieve based on a shared academic background), this book ar...

Life history research is widely used in the humanities and social sciences. There are, however, methodological challenges such as the data analysis process, data collection, and drawing conclusions. This study scrutinized the data analysis perspectives for life history research, and the practical strategies used to analyze data based on these persp...