The Shifting Space of Ontology: Appeals to Crisis and the Reformulation of Nation, Race, and Biology in Educational Reform

Autor/in	Kung, Sunhye
Titel	The Shifting Space of Ontology: Appeals to Crisis and the Reformulation of Nation, Race, and Biology in Educational Reform
Quelle	In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 39 (2018) 2, S.196-218 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0159-6306
DOI	10.1080/01596306.2018.1404195
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Change; Educational Quality; Equal Education; Newspapers; Content Analysis; Global Approach; Philosophy; World Views; Ethnicity; Elementary Secondary Education; Political Issues; World History; Educational Policy; Race; Biology; Power Structure; Cultural Influences; Humanism; South Korea + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Bildungsreform; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Newspaper; Zeitung; Inhaltsanalyse; Globales Denken; Philosophie; World view; Weltanschauung; Ethnizität; Politischer Faktor; Weltgeschichte; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Rasse; Abstammung; Biologie; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Humanismus; Korea; Republik
Abstract	This article considers a conflated ontological space where national projections named Koreanness are conjoined through national educational reform discourses associated with "excellence" and "equality." It focuses on the shifting educational reform narratives that made appeals to notions of crisis before and after the IMF (International Monetary Fund) occurrence of 1997 in South Korea. Using Foucault's concept of biopower and Lyotard's concept of performativity, two representative Korean language newspapers (1995-1997 and 2005-2007) are analysed. The article concludes that the appeal to a sense of crisis through references to globalization (1995-1997) and the IMF (2005-2007) was utilized to elaborate the ontological shift in Koreanness-as-race from blood-tie (biology-as-nation-race) to label-based codification (biology-as-biopolitical species). The shifting nature of Koreanness elaborated here may ultimately offer suggestions for scenarios beyond its geopolitical realm, provoking reconsideration of convenient binaries, economic reductionism, and the frequent naturalization of biological rationalities in educational research. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01