This year, I went through a couple of significant changes in my life. First, I just turned thirty in Korean age, which means I will now be under a pretty heavy social pressure to really know where I’m going with my life. Second, I recently joined a membership club for female professionals based in Seoul … Continue reading A Stellar Meeting with Joyce Kim
*Featured image: a Rwandan classroom (obtained from Ikea Foundation photo library) As an international student who pursued a graduate degree at an American university, I have had a very personal, first-handed experience with an educational environment where the language of instruction differed from my mother tongue language. Quite frankly, absorbing new information through a foreign … Continue reading Language and Education in Rwanda
*Featured image obtained from Google image. The definition of vocational education and training (VET) varies across the world. According to Hoeckel (2008, p.3), VET systems “range from highly regulated structures in the dual system countries to situations like in the UK, where vocational education is highly fragmented and apprenticeships do not have a legally defined … Continue reading Vocational Education and Training (VET) in Germany
*Featured image: Bart Simpson apologizes for flipping the classroom (obtained from Google image). Education is a neutral process that can either contribute to or deteriorate social mobility and equality. The differences in the level of cultural and social capital students have likely affect their academic outcomes, which in turn allow students from more privileged backgrounds … Continue reading Education, Democracy, and Student-Centeredness
*Featured image: Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate and an activist for girl’s right to education in Pakistan and around the world (obtained from Google image). Women’s empowerment has been associated with higher economic productivity, and for this reason, the mission of closing gender gap in many aspects of social life (i.e. labor … Continue reading Girls in Education, and Education about Girls
*Featured image: a South Korean classroom, presumably from the 1950-1960s (obtained from Google image). Human capital theory translates the outcomes of education into economic terms. In other words, the most prevalent definition of human capital theory is that the more educated you are, the more likely you are to have higher income for your increased … Continue reading Human Capital Theory and the Role of Education
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