Education solution?
Cho Haejoang and Kim Nam-I gave an insightful glance into their passion,
the Haja Center for alternative schooling.
In East Asia young people are being criticized for a lack of interest
and commitment to productive work and the formal education system. The
other side of the coin is that children feel discontented with the economic
obsession and pressure from their parents.
The compressed rush to development? and inability to conform force them
out of the formal school system. Youth violence, and unemployment are
further contributing factors to this crisis widely found in Asia and
all over the world.
The Haja school is a small alternative experimental school, born from
the current crisis in the schools. It was opened at the Yonsei University
with government funding and created to be the playground for curious
students, where they can connect with art and each other. It is a school
for drop-outs from the conventional school system. Formally it is known
as the youth Factory for Alternative Culture?
The name means let's do it in Korean, but with the emphasis on when you
are ready. It further promotes the concept of working like playing and
values autonomy and co-existence.
It is an autonomous zone for the oppressed youth where they can take
part or initiate various activities. They are oppressed, they are different, more sensitive and
more creative than the mainstream students. At the center they are constantly
upgrading themselves by teaching and learning from each other.
The learning by doing factories or studios are: design in life, filming
and video, music and performance, web and civil culture.(JL)
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