East and West in Comparative Education: Searching for New Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781138243712 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 128 str.

Soong Hee Han; Peter Jarvis

Opis

Sparked by global capitalism’s demand for new knowledge and new commodities, education in East and South Asia has focused on science and technology, often at the expense of the human sciences. However, although this demand has led to some standardisation, the cultural differences between countries still have a significant impact on their educational systems, which seek to capture some of the indigenous culture. This book examines these cultural differences, analysing the changing educational systems which seek to reconcile the retention of authentic culture with the demands for standardisation and convergence. This book was published as a special issue of Comparative Education.

Spis treści

Introduction: The study of East and West in comparative education – towards a rationale  1. Learning to be a person – East and West  2. A historical comparison of intellectual renaissance in the East and the West  3. Learning as sociocultural practice: Chinese immigrant professionals negotiating differences and identities in the Canadian labour market  4. Changing grassroots communities and lifelong learning in Japan  5. Confucian states and learning life: making scholar-officials and social learning a political contestation  6. Bridging East and West educational divides in Singapore  7. Educational practice in India and its foundations in Indian heritage: a synthesis of the East and West?  8. ASEM – the modern Silk Road: travelling ideas for education reforms and partnerships between Asia and Europe

O autorze

SoongHee Han is Professor of Lifelong Learning in the Department of Education at Seoul National University, South Korea. He is the president-elect (2016-2018) of The Korean Society of Lifelong Education.　His academic work has focused on developing a new platform for discourses on educational theory, especially centred on the framework of lifelong learning, learning societies, and complex learning ecologies. He has published articles in journals such as the International Review of Education, the International Journal of Lifelong Education, and the Asia Pacific Education Review.

Peter Jarvis is Emeritus Professor of Continuing Education at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. He is the editor of The Routledge International Handbook of Learning (with Mary Watts, 2012). He is the author of Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society (Routledge, 2008), a trilogy of volumes on lifelong learning; Learning to be a Person in Society (Routledge, 2009); and Adult Education and Lifelong Learning: Theory and Practice (Routledge, 4^th ed., 2010). He is also founding editor of The International Journal of Lifelong Education – now in its 30^th year.