Civic Education and Political Empowerment Among South Korean Youth

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Abstract: South Korea’s democratic consolidation over the past half-century has been accompanied by the proliferation of information related to democratic practices and democracy itself. Scholars of democracy agree that a robust democracy requires well-informed and active citizen participation, and young South Koreans between the ages of 18 and 29 have access to historically unprecedented amounts of information about politics. Yet recent survey has revealed that youth reporting feeling that politics and governance are difficult to understand. Given the sprawling extent of South Korea’s democratic development, why do feelings of being able to understand politics among the nation’s youth remain so low? This investigation turns to civic education in South Korea to answer this question—to understand not only whether students are learning about democracy, but also how democracy is taught in schools. This investigation proceeds in five parts: An introduction to the research question, a discussion of methods employed, a brief history of democratic education on the peninsula, close readings of history and society textbooks at the secondary school level and a discussion of the results emerged from close reading and their implications for the future of South Korean democracy.

Type of resource	text
Date created	June 2, 2017

Author	Han, Seunghwa Madeleine
Primary advisor	Moon, Yumie

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/nw989rf6654

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Preferred Citation: Han, Seunghwa Madeleine. (2017). Civic Education and Political Empowerment Among South Korean Youth. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/nw989rf6654

Stanford University, Fisher Family Honors Program in Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. (CDDRL)

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