A Choseon School's Sport Day and Formation of Social Capital

• In Event: International Positions on Equality in Education

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to explore how a Chosen school in Japan forms social capital with S. Korean through its sport day in the context of cultural values, and what its particularities are. For the research, a case study of a Chosen school’s sport day had been conducted which included ethnographic observation, interview, and reviewing documents. The conceptual framework of Putnam’s social capital has applied to interpret the data. We found that the event provides the chance for making connections to S. Koreans, at the level of institusional social capital. The nerve between different understandings of Zainichi require norms, preventing ‘speak out of blue’ from S.Koreans.

Authors

• Hyekyung Park, Chungnam National University

• Hwanbo Park, University of California - Los Angeles

• seongkyeong jeong, Chungnam National University

• Jaeeun Kim, Chungnam National University