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]. they found that 57% of authors were from asia and 28% from africa, with nigeria, china and india being the leading countries .
beall j. predatory publishers are corrupting open access. nature. 2012; 489: 179–9 .
]. at that time, the list of publishers included 614 items and the list of individual journals had 416 items. the publishers of the latter were classified as single - journal publishers in our study, leading to a total number of 1, 030 publishers as a starting point. the next step was to review each publisher’s website in order to count the number of journals published and to record the publisher’s country of origin. we excluded 64 publishers from the entire population for the reason that they had invalid links, published no journals or provided no journal - related information. of the remaining 966 publishers, we found a total of 11, 873 published journals. this preliminary analysis demonstrated the heterogeneity of predatory publishers in terms of their journal size; most publishers are relatively small with less than ten journals, but there are several publishers with large fleets of journals .
early dissemination of important findings from asia which may lead to new concepts in catalyst design is the main aim of this journal. rapid, invited, short reviews and perspectives from academia and industry will constitute the major part of catalysis surveys from asia. surveys of recent progress and activities in catalytic science and technology and related areas in asia will be covered regularly as well. we would appreciate critical comments from colleagues throughout the world about articles in catalysis surveys from asia. if requested and thought appropriate, the comments will be included in the journal. we will be very happy if this journal stimulates global communication between scientists and engineers in the world of catalysis .
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ishii, hiroshi, gellner, david n. and nawa, katsuo eds. , social dynamics in northern south asia (in two volumes), volume 1: nepalis inside and outside nepal new delhi: manohar publishers & distributors, 2007 xvii, 543 p. ; 22 cm. isbn: 81 - 7304 - 699 - 9
beall j. criteria for determining predatory open - access publishers. 2nd edition. denver, co: scholarly open access; 2012 .
agrarian structure and economic underdevelopment: kaushik basu, (harwood academic publishers, chur, switzerland, 1990) pp. x + 95
ishii, hiroshi, gellner, david n. and nawa, katsuo eds. , social dynamics in northern south asia (in two volumes), volume 2: political and social transformations in north india and nepal new delhi: manohar publishers & distributors, 2007 xvi, 520 p. ; 22 cm. isbn: 81 - 7304 - 729 - 4
provides information about how publishers are distributed in each stratum. india dominates the single - journal publisher stratum where the share is 42% .
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published since 1853, bijdragen tot de taal -, land - en volkenkunde / journal of the humanities and social sciences of southeast asia (bki) is an interdisciplinary journal on southeast asia, with a strong focus on indonesia. in 2007, it was rated ‘a + ’ by the asian studies association of australia (asaa). this is a full open access journal, which means that all articles are freely available, ensuring maximum, worldwide dissemination of content .
the main aim of catalysis surveys from asia is to disseminate as early as possible significant findings and trends from asia which may lead to new concepts in catalyst design. this quarterly journal focuses on surveys of recent progress and activities in catalytic science and technology and related areas. a major proportion of the contents consists of rapid, invited, short reviews and accounts from academia and industry. the journal stimulates global communication between the scientists and engineers in the world of catalysis .
tenopir c, king d. towards electronic journals: realities for scientists, librarians and publishers. washington, dc: sla publishing; 2000 .
it would have taken a lot of effort to manually collect publication volumes and other data for all 11, 873 journals, so the only practical solution was to make a sample of journals to generalize from. one option would have been a fully random sample, with each journal having the same chance of being selected. we suspected, however, that journals from small publishers often publish a much higher number of articles than those of large publishers, and this was verified in a small pilot test, using data from ten random journals from small and large publishers, respectively. hence, a fully random sample would probably have resulted in an underestimation of the total number of articles, since journals from the large publishers with large journal portfolios would have dominated the picture and very few journals from single - journal publishers would have been included in the sample. instead we chose a stratified multistage sampling based on the size of the publishers by first splitting the publishers into four size strata (100 + journals, 10–99 journals, 2–9 journals and single - journal) and then randomly sampling publishers within each of these strata. the sampling process is illustrated in fig .
describes the regional distribution of the 262 sampled corresponding authors, which is highly skewed to asia and africa. around 35% of authors are from india, followed by nigerian authors (8 %) and us authors (6 %) .
asia publishing has just put out 5 more bilingual translations of korean literature o n top of the 75 they’ve produced over the last two years. there will soon be a web page with the books, reviews, author pictures / interviews, etc… .
asia book house, educational publishers was established in the year 1984 with a commitment to enhance the academic excellence of the learning and teaching community with books of excellence. we ventured into the field of publishing with a handful of english workbooks. the enthusiastic reception our books received gave us sufficient impetus to publish textbooks as well. handful of workbooks based on english readers published by the govt. of andhra pradesh .
beall j. beall’s list: potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open - access publishers. denver, co: scholarly open access; 2013 .
until 2012, the growth in predatory article numbers occurred mainly through publishers who set up large (100 +) journal portfolios, and who on average charge almost 800 usd, but during the past three years the 10–99 journal publishers, who on average charge only 104 usd, have started to dominate the market .
this page provides an overview of the books and journals published by brill academic publishers in collaboration with kitlv / royal netherlands institute of southeast asian and caribbean studies .
]. ezinwa nwagwu and ojemeni studied 34 journals published by nigerian - based publishers, academic journals inc. and international research journals, both focusing in biomedicine [
karashima, noboru ed. , kingship in indian history new delhi: manohar publishers & distributors, 1999 x, 271 p. ; 22 cm. isbn: 8173043264
since journals for all 20 publishers in the 100 + strata were sampled and the total number of journals per publisher were known, we calculated the total article volume for the stratum by multiplying the average number of articles per journal for each publisher with that publisher’s number of journals, and then summing up the results over the 20 publishers .
over the studied period, predatory journals have rapidly increased their publication volumes from 53, 000 in 2010 to an estimated 420, 000 articles in 2014, published by around 8, 000 active journals. early on, publishers with more than 100 journals dominated the market, but since 2012 publishers in the 10–99 journal size category have captured the largest market share. the regional distribution of both the publisher’s country and authorship is highly skewed, in particular asia and africa contributed three quarters of authors. authors paid an average article processing charge of 178 usd per article for articles typically published within 2 to 3 months of submission .
a negative consequence of the rapid growth of scholarly open access publishing funded by article processing charges is the emergence of publishers and journals with highly questionable marketing and peer review practices. these so - called predatory publishers are causing unfounded negative publicity for open access publishing in general. reports about this branch of e - business have so far mainly concentrated on exposing lacking peer review and scandals involving publishers and journals. there is a lack of comprehensive studies about several aspects of this phenomenon, including extent and regional distribution .
over the studied period, predatory journals have rapidly increased their publication volumes from 53, 000 in 2010 to an estimated 420, 000 articles in 2014, published by around 8, 000 active journals. early on, publishers with more than 100 journals dominated the market, but since 2012 publishers in the 10 - 99 journal size category have captured the largest market share. the regional distribution of both the publisher' s country and authorship is highly skewed, in particular asia and africa contributed three quarters of authors. authors paid an average article processing charge of 178 usd per article for articles typically published within 2 to 3 months of submission .
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kotani, hiroyuki ed. , caste system, untouchability and the depressed new delhi: manohar publishers & distributors, 1997 x, 299 p. ; 23 cm. isbn: 8173042047
okahashi, hidenori ed. , emerging new industrial spaces and regional development in india new delhi: manohar publishers & distributors, 2008 197 p. ; 22 cm. isbn: 8173047332
]. membership in the open access scholarly publishers association (oaspa) is also contingent on meeting quality criteria. an increasing share of respectable oa journals is also nowadays indexed by the isi .
describes the distribution of the publishers across geographic regions. the distribution is highly skewed, with 27% publishing in india. a total of 52 publishers quote addresses in several countries, for instance, often a combination of the usa or a western european country with a country from africa or asia. in order to establish how credible a usa / european address was, we took a closer look at the 3d street view of the address using google maps. if the result was a location that was not credible or, for instance, a po box, we classified the journal according to the alternative address. for some addresses that were very difficult to identify, we put them in the category of ‘impossible to determine’ .
last year, ms. park warned against “ideological prejudices” in the current textbooks. the education ministry has since asked the publishers to make many changes in the texts, but their authors filed lawsuits against the interference .
einoo, shingo and takashima, jun eds. , from material to deity: indian rituals of consecration new delhi: manohar publishers & distributors, 2005 x, 333 p. ; 22 cm. isbn: 8173046271
lukić t, blešić i, basarin b, ivanović b, milošević d, sakulski d. predatory and fake scientific journals / publishers – a global outbreak with rising trend: a review. geographica pannonica. 2014; 18: 69–81 .
] who studied 34 journals from two nigerian - based predatory publishers. the minor differences in the results can be explained by the much more limited journal samples in the above studies, for instance, the journals studied by ezinwa nwagwu and ojemeni [
the publishing of scholarly journals has, like so many other areas in business and society, undergone a radical transformation due to the emergence of the internet. mainstream publishers of subscription journals started publishing parallel electronic versions of their journals around the millennium shift [
the first question to be asked is how to define a predatory publisher (as well as journal). for practical purposes it would have been impossible for us to construct a new or adapted list of criteria and then search the internet for publishers and / or journals fulfilling these criteria. instead, the work already done by beall in compiling his index of predatory publishers as well as individual predatory journals was used as the starting point for empirical data collection. beall has defined a detailed list of criteria [
leading respectable oa publishers have not stood by silently as oa has been given a bad name by predators. rather than blacklisting journals, which jeffrey beall is doing, the strategy has been one of defining quality criteria and accreditations of journals that meet those [
shima, iwao, sakata, teiji and ida, katsuyuki the historical development of the bhakti movement in india: theory and practice new delhi: manohar publishers & distributors, 2011 299 p. ; 22 cm isbn: 81 - 7304 - 884 - 5
the publishers would be pleased to receive submissions for this series. please contact series editor tom cooper via email (tom @ acig. info), or in writing to helion & company limited, 26 willow road, solihull, west midlands, b91 1ue .
in the first stage of sampling, we randomly selected a total of 290 publishers from the different strata. in the case of the 100 + stratum, we did not in fact sample but included all 20 publishers in that category. after that, a random number of journals were chosen among the included publishers. in the 100 + stratum, ten journals were sampled per publisher. both in the 10–99 and 2–9 strata, we sampled two journals from each publisher. in the single - journal strata, considering that such journals are more likely to produce more articles, more journals (n = 127) than in the other strata were fully sampled so that more reliable results concerning the total article volumes from this stratum could be obtained. this resulted in a total sample of 613 journals .
this study is, however, concerned with a peculiar sub - class of oa journals using apcs, made possible by the global reach and cost - effectiveness of the internet. publishers of this type of journal seem to be in the scholarly publishing business only in order to collect apcs and provide rapid publishing without proper peer review for authors who need publications in their cvs. the information on the internet about the journals is often strongly misleading, and the publishers spam academics all over the globe with requests for submissions and reviews and for joining editorial boards .
). the large publishers dominated the market in 2010 and still in 2011, but after that their absolute article numbers only increased slightly. in 2012, journals from the 10–99 stratum rapidly took over market domination and have consolidated that position even when the two smallest strata also showed continuous fast growth .
as of 1 january 2013 the production, distribution and sale of books by kitlv (including verhandelingen en caribbean series) and the publication of our journals bki and nwig are the responsibility of brill publishers. both journals are fully sponsored by the learned society kitlv, and therefore charges for open access publishing are waived .
we found 11, 873 journals, published by 996 publishers (of which 447 publish just one journal). of these journals, we estimate that around 67% (around 8, 000 journals) were active, in the sense that they published at least one article. the share of empty journal websites was particularly noticeable among the journals from publishers with journal portfolios of 100 or more journals (46 %) and much lower in the smaller publisher strata (10–99, 23% ; 2–9, 18% ; and single, 2 %). the problem of empty placeholder journals is a problem specific to predatory journals .
the administrative directive to wrest control over history textbooks from private publishers came after months of heated public debate over how to teach children history. the controversy has focused largely on how to characterize the history of modern korea, including japan’s colonial rule in the early 20th century and south korea’s tumultuous, often bloody march toward democracy .
our use of beall’s list of predatory publishers as the main external data source can be questioned, since the list is highly controversial. our choice of using it as a starting point for data collection was dictated by practical resource constraints. nevertheless, the process of searching the websites demonstrated tangibly to us that the publishers and sampled journals usually fulfilled several of beall’s criteria, although we did not systematically record our impressions. the multi - tier sampling method used was the most realistic option to keep the time used for manually searching for data reasonable, and also to enable us to study the variations between different publisher strata, which proved to be considerable .
mayeda, sengaku the way to liberation: indological studies in japan (in two volumes), volume 1 (in collaboration with y. matsunami, m. tokunaga and h. marui) new delhi: manohar publishers & distributors, 2000 xv, 289 p. ; 22 cm. isbn: 8173043671 (set) isbn: 8173043744
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our data showed a big difference in apc levels depending on the stratum. the apcs by predators are, nevertheless, much lower than the apcs by more credible oa publishers, which on the other hand often offer waivers from the charges to authors from developing countries. the average of doaj journals with apcs is around 900–1, 000 usd [
a side - effect of this transformation was the prospect it offered for a more radical rethinking of revenue models. new innovative publishers repositioned themselves as service providers to the authors, publishing with them, rather than seeing themselves as content providers to readers. in this model, authors pay the publishers for their services, including that the articles become freely accessible to anybody with internet access (open access, oa). other than that, the peer review practices, layout, indexing, and so on, remain largely the same. a major difference is nevertheless that the journals are published only in electronic format and that the delay from submission to publishing is usually shorter compared to traditional scholarly journals .
] for determining if a publisher / journal is predatory. the list is rather long with 48 criteria, for either the publisher or individual journal, and is grouped under four major headings (editor and staff, business management, integrity and other). the criteria cover a vast array of direct and indirect indicators of the lack of a rigorous scientific quality control of the published articles as well as of the publishers trying to establish a reputable image in order to attract submissions. for instance, it is often very difficult to find out in which country the publisher operates in practice. at the same time, authors and institutions are often assumed to base their evaluation of journals at least in part based on the publisher’s location, with a preference for us and western european locations. another indicator is that some publishers have rapidly created vast portfolios of journals covering just about all fields of science, many of which lack content. a third is that many publishers advertise very rapid turnaround times from submission to publication, which would defeat the purpose of peer review by competent researchers .
predatory publishers have caused a lot of negative publicity for oa journals using apcs, partly due to the spam email that they constantly send out to researchers and partly due to a number of scandals involving intentionally faulty manuscripts that have passed their quality control. predatory oa is regularly discussed and warnings are issued in academic journals, in particular in editorials of scholarly journals [
shows the development of the average number of articles per year. the overall averages grew from 30 articles per journal in 2010 to 53 articles in 2012, but after that the number seems to have stabilized. the overall average in each stratum conceals the fact that the average is much higher for single - journal and 2–9 publishers than for the two uppermost strata .
an interesting finding is the very low share of south america, both among publishers (0. 5 %) and corresponding authors (2. 2 %). it would no doubt be an interesting question to study the reasons for this, which could be a combination of factors, where the infrastructure in latin america differs from countries like india and nigeria .
region: regional studies of russia, eastern europe, and central asia is a peer - reviewed international journal that explores the history and current political, economic, and social affairs of the entire former soviet bloc. in particular, the journal focuses on various facets of transformation at the local and national levels in the aforementioned region, as well as the changing character of their relationships with the rest of the world in the context of glocalization. this journal distinguishes itself from others in similar fields by its (g) locally oriented perspective. this journal regularly gives space to articles on concrete local issues written by local eurasianist scholars .
]. this has led to a niche market for some local publishers, which have managed to get their journals into web of science, in the wake of thomson reuter’s drive to index more regional journals during the latter half of the previous decade. djuric sent a purposefully flawed manuscript to one such journal, in which several of his university colleagues had published recently, and got an acceptance the next day with instruction on how to pay the apc .
the number of oa journals charging authors (using article processing charges, apcs) and the number of articles published by them has rapidly risen in the last decade, and some journals have reached a high scientific status in their field. publishers have also started experimenting with novel forms of peer review, in particular in so - called ‘megajournals’, which only check for scientific rigor and validity, not for the significance of the results, which is left to the readers to decide [
after an initial scan of all predatory publishers and journals included in the so - called beall’s list, a sample of 613 journals was constructed using a stratified sampling method from the total of over 11, 000 journals identified. information about the subject field, country of publisher, article processing charge and article volumes published between 2010 and 2014 were manually collected from the journal websites. for a subset of journals, individual articles were sampled in order to study the country affiliation of authors and the publication delays .
the average and median publication time for journals and articles published in 2014 (the two measures were calculated in the same way as for apcs) were calculated. the results show that predatory publishers take an average of 3. 6 months to publish if we calculated over journals and 3. 3 months weighted by number of articles in 2014. however, we consider the median (2. 7 overall) a more meaningful metric, since that eliminates the effects of a few outlier articles with very long delays .
in the scatterplot of the sampled journals, there are four outlier journals (indicated by numbers), which break the clear pattern of diminishing article volumes as a function of increasing apcs. journal 1, 3 and 4 are published by large publishers (100 +), and in particular journal 4 (remote sensing), which sticks out the most, has a jcr impact factor of 2. 6. journal 2 is the ‘hijacked’ journal experimental & clinical cardiology, which in 2014 still retained its impact factor .
after an initial scan of all predatory publishers and journals included in the so - called beall' s list, a sample of 613 journals was constructed using a stratified sampling method from the total of over 11, 000 journals identified. information about the subject field, country of publisher, article processing charge and article volumes published between 2010 and 2014 were manually collected from the journal websites. for a subset of journals, individual articles were sampled in order to study the country affiliation of authors and the publication delays .
in this study, we used a multistage stratified sampling method to take a look into the predatory publishers and journals on beall’s list and generated their development trend over time. we found that the problems caused by predatory journals are rather limited and regional, and believe that the publishing volumes in such journals will cease growing in the near future. open access publishing is rapidly gaining momentum, in particular through the actions of major research funders and policy makers. this should create better opportunities for researchers from countries where predatory publishing is currently popular, to get published in journals of higher quality, in particular since most journals have a policy to waive the apcs for authors from developing countries .
it’s called the “k - fiction” series and comprises five short books by young writers (it was strongly emphasized at the event that this series is different from the previous “classic modern” series in that it intends to only be contemporary): park min - kyu’s “dinner with buffett (awesome !), ” park hyong - su’s “arpan, ” son bo - mi’s “hot air balloon, ” oh han - ki’s “my clint eastwood” and choi min - woo’s “dishonored. ”
this time, young korean writers and editors have gathered to introduce contemporary korean literature. under the title “k - fiction, ” the project has released korean - english translations of short stories by young, emerging korean writers .
“previously, we focused on classics and modern korean literature, while less on contemporary works, ” said lee kyung - jae, one of the series’ editors, at a press conference last week in seoul. “but this time, we selected outstanding contemporary works that can resonate with both korean readers and international readers today. ”
the previous 75 books included authors like kim won - il, yi munyol, ch’oe yun, and were all pretty much outstanding, so this is a great chance to dip your toe into korean literature. as noted, available on amazon
president moon jae - in will pay state visits to india and singapore from july 8 to 13. while visiting the two key allies in seoul’s new southern policy, president moon will hold summit meetings to discuss cooperation, and ask for support for the establishment of peace and denuclearization on the korean peninsula .
india now plays an active role in the international community after ending its long - term non - aligned policy, and singapore is the current chair of asean this year, ” said second deputy chief of the presidential national security office nam gwan - pyo during a media briefing at the chunchugwan press center at cheong wa dae on july 5 .
first lady kim jung - sook spent an afternoon watching a bollywood film with a group of indian students studying in korea. the event was arranged in the run up to president moon jae - in' s state visit to india next week from july 8 to 11. the screening took place at an art - house cinema in sinsa - dong in southern seoul on july 4. fifteen indian students pursuing their studies in fields such as electronic engineering, korean studies, dentistry, agricultural chemistry and international relations came to meet the first lady .
president moon jae - in said on july 3 that his administration will work with north korea to carry out projects to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the march first independence movement and the establishment of the former provisional government in exile. “the joint commemoration projects will help build another 100 years of the republic of korea on that foundation, ” said the president during a launch ceremony for a preparatory committee that will organize events that will commemorate next year’s 100th anniversary of the march first independence movement, the fight against japanese colonial rule, and the establishment of the korean provisional government in exile .
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students at a high school in seoul, south korea, last year. by 2017, the country' s schools must stop teaching from privately published history books, a practice in place since 2010 .
seoul, south korea — south korea said on monday that beginning in 2017, its middle and high school students would be taught history from government - issued textbooks, prompting criticism that president park geun - hye ’s conservative government was returning education to the country’s authoritarian past .
for years, conservative critics have charged that left - leaning authors poisoned the current textbooks and students’ minds with their “ideological biases. ” the critics were especially upset with the way the textbooks described north korea and the military dictators who once ruled south korea, including ms. park’s father, park chung - hee, who seized power in a 1961 coup and remained in control using torture and martial law until 1979 .
but opponents of ms. park, including some civic groups and regional education leaders, vowed to protest the government’s move, which they said would embarrass the country globally by creating a textbook system similar to the one in north korea .
the main opposition party said it would work on a bill to ban the government from writing textbooks. but ms. park’s party, which dominates the national assembly, supports government - issued textbooks .
“the house is not just leaking or requires small repairs here and there, but its very foundation and design are wrong, ” the vice prime minister and education minister, hwang woo - yea, said during a nationally televised news conference on monday, explaining why textbooks written by the government should replace the current books .
ms. park’s critics said the idea smacked of her father’s dictatorship, during which the government wrote history textbooks and used them to glorify his coup as a “revolution” and to justify his prolonged rule. these critics fear that ms. park’s government will use the new textbooks to stifle opinion and whitewash the legacy of the old conservative elites, including her father, who served as an officer in japan’s colonial military before overseeing south korea’s rapid economic growth .
“the father staged a military coup, and now the daughter is engineering a coup in history education, ” said park han - yong, a chief researcher at the center for historical truth and justice, based in seoul. “this is a history coup that supporters of pro - japanese collaboration and the past dictatorship have been preparing for 10 years. ”
the center recently revealed documents that it said showed that the father of kim moo - sung, the leader of the president’s party, was a rich businessman and pro - japanese collaborator who once urged koreans to make donations to finance warplanes for japan’s world war ii military .
reflecting a prevailing conservative view here, mr. hwang said on monday that textbooks should focus on teaching “the proud history of south korea, which has achieved both democratization and industrialization in the shortest time in the world history. ” his deputy, kim jae - choon, said current textbooks uncritically cited north korean propaganda and failed to make it clear that the korean war was started by the north .
“one textbook, for example, used the term ‘dictatorial’ only twice when writing about north korea but as many as 28 times about south korea” under its military rulers, mr. kim said .
under park chung - hee, south korea required schools to use a single government - issued history textbook. but since 2010, schools have been free to choose among several privately published textbooks, although the education ministry still has to approve the books .
some of the books delved into long - hidden aspects of the recent past: collaboration with japanese colonialists, mass killings of civilians during the korean war and the abuse of political dissidents under the dictators. conservatives criticized what they called “masochistic historical views” in the books and accused the authors of inculcating youngsters with “left - leaning nationalism” that they said emphasized ethnic affinity with north korea while casting an unfavorable eye on the role of the united states in modern korean history .
the political opposition said the government’s decision deviated from the standard practice in advanced countries. they called on mr. hwang to step down .
on monday, mr. hwang said his ministry would soon invite a panel of historians to write new textbooks, as well as a broad range of people to review them, to ensure that the books would be “objective and balanced. ”
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last week, south korea’s ministry of education announced its decision to reinstate state - published history textbooks for high schools. starting from 2017, the government will have exclusive rights over the content and production of the textbooks. currently, high schools have the ability to choose from independent publications that are approved by the ministry. in 2014, however, korean president park geun - hye suggested that the textbooks needed to be changed because they contain factual errors and are ideologically biased in support of left - leaning policies .
educators and professors around the country have expressed great concern over the new initiative. in september, 160 professors from korea university, 32 professors from seoul national university, and 132 professors from yonsei university protested the ministry’s move saying that state textbooks will only reflect the historical perspective of the leaders in power. over 15, 000 educators have criticized the policy as undemocratic. protests and political debates have continued since the announcement .
student prepares a signage for rally. it reads: “no one can own history. ” | courtesy seoul national university students who oppose the nationalization of korean history textbooks
analyze the news: ask students to choose two different articles on the nationalization of korean textbooks (some suggested news sources are listed below). then ask students to analyze the similarities and differences in the content and perspectives presented in the news sources. you may want to use the venn diagram handout (see attachment below). this activity will help your students to learn about the korea story and practice critically analyzing the news .
hold a debate: divide the class in two groups—with one half of the class defending nationalization of textbooks and the other half opposing it. give time for each group to do background research on the issue and identify evidence in support of their respective positions. bring the class back together as a group and debate about the issue .
have a role - play discussion: assign specific roles for each person (e. g. an elementary school student in korea who does not understand the implications of the policy, a teacher who opposes nationalization, a politician of the ruling party, a politician of the opposing party, a parent who is ambivalent, etc .) and have students do background research on their perspectives. then, come together as a class and have each student briefly introduce themselves in their roles. for the purpose of the discussion, remind students to stay in character even if these opinions and attitudes contradict their personal beliefs. at the end of the discussions, debrief and allow students to freely express their own perspectives .
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asia publishers ( hangul : 도서출판 아시아 ; rr : doseochulpan asi-a ) is a seoul-based book publisher best known for producing multi-volume series of translated korean literature in bilingual format , generally at novella length and usually featuring a short biography of the author , a background of the social and historical setting of the work , and a brief collection of korean critical response to the works . 
asia publishers (hangul: 도서출판 아시아; rr: doseochulpan asi-a) is a seoul-based book publisher best known for producing multi-volume series of translated korean literature in bilingual format, generally at novella length and usually featuring a short biography of the author, a background of the social and historical setting of the work, and a brief collection of korean critical response to the works.
asia publishers (hangul: 도서출판 아시아; rr: doseochulpan asi-a) is a seoul-based book publisher best known for producing multi-volume series of translated korean literature in bilingual format, generally at novella length and usually featuring a short biography of the author, a background of the social and historical setting of the work, and a brief collection of korean critical response to the works.