tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937340589128229743.post7097811038267661473..comments2023-11-03T03:35:30.716-07:00Comments on A Year in Mokpo: Review of the October workshopj.m.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02245497521053274337noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937340589128229743.post-44280960579727598642007-12-23T17:02:00.000-08:002007-12-23T17:02:00.000-08:00Nice job of analysis it would appear. Suggest you ...Nice job of analysis it would appear. Suggest you follow-up with some research and get posted at Asian EFL journal teaching articles. That in itself would keep the momentum going from on that quasi research article on TEE by Dash. It is important that that of the past that is relevant to today is not lost. The Education boards are there to drive home that all is well when it is not particuarly given the political pressures they are under. Hence TEE is likely far from fully working though progressing here and there no doubt. And those pressures are driven from a number of places from parents on one side and chaebols on the other -though I think the well informed business leaders have largely given up on most of the korean education. You noter the factory like attitude to everyone wanting to finish by 5pm. That in part of a nutshell is where education has gone-juxtapositioned against the 3 million dollar salary of football stars and 100000 dollar banker receptionists in Europe. Businesses really need so few of the graduates for the major thinking positions who inevitably get a good education even if it is in part through a reducation programme at company training andéor good school in a good district or private school. My general view of public education is largey unfavorable though there certainly are some good schools able to deliver a decent curriculum -TEE included. They would do well to shut down a good number of universities which are so far in surpls that it borders on the ridiculous. Finally more technical schools are needed where English and TEE overall should be probably les emphasized. Education expectations and labour market requirements need to be realistic including parents.English on one hand is way too much of a fad and everyone wants it because too many have a dreamland about where they are goig professionally etc. Administrations like in so many of the systems are strangling off resources, collecting unreliable statisics amany etc. to feed these ridiculous expectations and trying to hide badly structured and managed educational institutions. <BR/><BR/>Merc de France.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com