Equal Access to Early Childhood Education in South Korea Using the Geographic Information System

Autor/inn/en	Lee, Jin; Jang, Youn Joo
Titel	Equal Access to Early Childhood Education in South Korea Using the Geographic Information System
Quelle	In: International Journal of Early Years Education, 25 (2017) 2, S.171-189 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0966-9760
DOI	10.1080/09669760.2017.1287559
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Equal Education; Access to Education; Early Childhood Education; Geographic Information Systems; Geographic Location; School Location; Supply and Demand; Kindergarten; Child Care Centers; Population Distribution; Low Income Students; Proximity; School Choice; South Korea (Seoul) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Early childhood; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Schulgelände; Bedarfsplanung; Child care facilities; Child care services; Kinderzentrum; Kinderbetreuung; Demographical distribution; Bevölkerungsverteilung; Lebensnähe; Choice of school; Schulwahl
Abstract	While the importance of early childhood education is well documented, scant attention is afforded to the access to institutions for early childhood education. Uneven distribution of institutions for early childhood education in segregated metropolitan areas can cause inequality of educational opportunity. By using the Geographic Information System tools, this paper investigates the extent to which both demand and supply in early childhood education is geographically balanced across Seoul, Korea. The analysis finds that kindergartens and daycare centres authorised by the government are evenly distributed across Seoul according to the demand. Yet, market-oriented English kindergartens are disproportionately concentrated in the southern areas of Seoul where families with higher income levels are clustered. These findings suggest that because market-driven institutions for early childhood education are not uniformly distributed corresponding to the demand, home residence according to parents' income and occupation creates a type of educational inequality. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01