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Education As An Instrument Of Power: Japanese Textbooks In Colonial Korea, 1910-1945, Hyun Wook (Jacob) Noh
Education As An Instrument Of Power: Japanese Textbooks In Colonial Korea, 1910-1945, Hyun Wook (Jacob) Noh
2020 Claremont Colleges Library Undergraduate Research Award
In this research project, I analyze the themes, morals, and stories in three elementary school textbooks issued by the governor general of colonial Korea from 1915 to 1935. I specifically aim to understand how and why the Japanese government used education to exercise power over its Korean subjects. In order to do so, I use Michel Foucault’s theory of “How to Exercise Power” as a framework. This theory explains how states direct the behavior of people through lines of communication, the shaping of capacity, and the exercise of power relations. Thus, a Foucauldian reading of these sources reveals how the …
Peace, Love And (Soul)Cialism: Functions Of Teacher-Student Love In Collectivist Societal Education And Its Relationship To The Elimination Of African American Educational Underachievement, Nirel Jonesmitchell
Peace, Love And (Soul)Cialism: Functions Of Teacher-Student Love In Collectivist Societal Education And Its Relationship To The Elimination Of African American Educational Underachievement, Nirel Jonesmitchell
2020 Claremont Colleges Library Undergraduate Research Award
Top researchers in the field of intimacy education signify that definitions of intimate connection— referring to a deep relationship with oneself, immediate circle, or humankind, more broadly—are identity dependent. Different countries and racial demographics, thus, conceptualize notions of solidarity, interdependence, and self-awareness distinctly. Without investigation, these discrepancies provoke division; attention, alternatively, has the power to induce the mitigation of educational achievement gaps in Latin America and domestically. Cuban notions of ‘legitimate’ relationships are contextualized by the political philosopher Jose Martí who delineated an ideological framework encouraging collectivism. This idea undergirds his contribution to the revolutionary Cuban literacy campaign: dialogical education. …
Bias In Selection Processes, Tiffany Charvet
Bias In Selection Processes, Tiffany Charvet
2020 Claremont Colleges Library Undergraduate Research Award
This research study examines underlying biases that occur in the selection process by college admissions evaluators in evaluating applicants applying for college admissions. Participants are recruited from Pitzer College and Claremont McKenna College - institutions who are apart of the Claremont Colleges consortium. The study uses a 2 x 2 factorial design. I predict that this research project will uncover underlying psychological ingroup bias in the college admissions process.