Class and cosmopolitan striving: Mothers' management of english education in South Korea

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 645-672

  Park, So Jin ^a   Abelmann, Nancy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Class; Cosmopolitanism; Education; English language; Mobility; South Korea

Indexed keywords

EID: 13244264832     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/anq.2004.0063     Document Type: Review

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