Abstract
This chapter presents a content analysis of ideologies in Korea's morals and social studies. Moral education in contemporary South Korea is very much determined by the authoritarian state's particular way of survival under the situation of national division, the military–political intervention of a foreign power, and economic competition in the world system. These conditions were embodied in the centralized system of moral education. Moral education in schools is intensively carried out through the morals course in primary and middle schools and through the national ethics course in high schools and colleges. Moral education seems most effective in the primary schools and least effective in the colleges. Although there is strong emphasis on the “peculiarity of the situation” and collective values brought about resistance from college professors and students, moral education is a very important vehicle by means of which students are socialized into the authoritarian and peripheral society. It is expected that the content and method of moral education will change as Korea's international power strengthens and as the political system becomes more democratic.
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