Education and Training for Development in East Asia: The Political Economy of Skill Formation in Newly Industrialised Economies

ISBN-13: 9780415181266 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 196 str.

David Ashton

Opis

The East Asian miracle, or its putative demise, is always news. The four Tiger economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea have experienced some of the fastest rates of economic growth ever achieved. This work provides an analysis of the development of education and training systems in Asia, and the relationship with the process of economic growth. The authors focus on how these systems facilitated their transition from labour intensive to capital intensive forms of production and explores the crucial role of government in managing this relationship. The hallmark of policymaking in these economies is that governments have been able to gear the output of their education and training systems to the requirements of any particular stage of growth, often by anticipating future skill demands. However, the book also considers to what extent this model of skill formation is being undermined by processes of economic liberalization and democratization.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview; Chapter 2 The Developmental State and the Education and Training System; Chapter 3 Singapore; Chapter 4 South Korea; Chapter 5 Taiwan; Chapter 6 Hong Kong; Chapter 7 Is There a ‘Four Tigers’ Model of Skill Formation?; Chapter 8 On the Diffusion of the Model;

O autorze

David Ashton is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Labour Market Studies at the University of Leicester.,
Francis Green is Professor of Economics at the University of Kent at Canterbury. David Ashton and Francis Green are authors of Education, Training and the Global Economy.,
Donna James is Research Manager at Wakefield Training and Enterprise Council.,
Johnny Sung is Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Centre for Labour Market Studies at the University of Leicester.