Education System of GIFT, Korea

Medical education of north Korea.

Gift and sacrifice: parental involvement in Latino adolescents' education.

Although myriad studies document the benefits of parental involvement in education on various indicators of children's academic performance, less research examines parental involvement among adolescents in low-income Latino families. Incorporating a multidimensional conceptualization of parental involvement, this study examined the relation between parental involvement and academic outcomes in ...

Quality Assurance of Distance Education in Korea

In this paper, the five international e-learning issues were discussed. The five international elearning issues are accessibility for the disabled, intellectual property rights, wireless technology, learning object reusability, and quality assurance. After discussing the five issues, this paper presents a brief description about Korea and an overview of distance education in Korea. Despite onli...

Covenant, Promise, and the Gift of Time

If we categorize religions according to whether they give greater prominence to time or to space, the role of “promise” marks a religion of covenant as clearly a religion of time. Yet the future is unknowable and can only be present to us as a field of possibilities. How far do these possibilities extend? The question directs us back to the nature of time, a question that became concealed in th...

Technology Education in Korea: Curriculum and Challenges

As a separate subject and a part of general education, technology education (TE) began to be offered to secondary students in Korea in 1970 under the name of kisul (literally, technology). While it has provided technological knowledge and capability, there have been issues and challenges in curriculum, instruction, and teacher education. This paper presents a brief history along with the status...