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From Reconstruction to Modernization: Cold War Politics and the U.S. Educational Aid Programs in South Korea
Sun, April 24, 4:15 to 5:45pm PDT (4:15 to 5:45pm PDT), Division Virtual Rooms, Division F - History and Historiography Virtual Paper Session RoomAbstract
This study will mainly investigate the history of U.S. educational aid programs in Korea with the Cold War politics and modernization theory. In the initial period of USAID’s educational development, they believed that education can be the catalyst to achieve equal opportunities for all and shape more modernized societies. The initial aid programs, however, did not highly investigate the technological and methodological issues to achieve educational goals and ways to match local needs to develop the country’s education. These reflections led to USAID’s new strategies of educational aid programs in the 1970s, with more focusing on the technological development of education.