Globalization and Educational Restructuring in the Asia Pacific Region

ISBN-13: 9780333770733 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 375 str.

Ka-Ho Mok; Anthony Welch; Bryant Welch

Opis

Examining the growing impact of globalization on education policy and development in the Asia Pacific region, this volume analyses the reactions and strategies of selected countries and their governments in response to marketization, corporization, commercialization and privatization.

Spis treści

Globalization, Structural Adjustment and Educational Reform; K.H.Mok & A.R.Welch Reflections on Singapore's Education Politics in an Age of Globalization; J.Tan Globalization Challenges to Higher Education Governance in South Korea; K.H.Mok & K.Yoon Globalization, Localization and Education Reform in a New Democracy: Taiwan's Experience; W.W.Law The Quest for Quality Education and a Learning Society in Hong Kong; K.H.Mok & P.Wilding Globalization and Educational Restructuring in China; K.L.Ngok & J.Kwong Globalization and the Philippines Education System; S.H.Toh & V.Floresca-Cawagas Education and the Localization of Structural Adjustment in Cambodia; D.M.Ayres Globalization, Structural Adjustment and Contemporary Educational Reforms in Australia - The Politics of Reform, or the Reform of Politics? A.R.Welch The New Zealand Education Experiment: From Democratic Participation to Self-Management, and from Universal Welfare Entitlement to Private Investment; M.Peters Conclusion: Deep Development or Deep Divisions?; A.R.Welch & K.H.Mok

O autorze

DAVID AYRES Acknowledged expert of Cambodian reforms JULIA KWONG Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Manitoba, Canada. WING-WAH LAW Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong KING-IUN NGOK Member of the Comparative Education Policy Research Unit and Instructor in the Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong MICHAEL PETERS Professor of Education, Glasgow University and adjunct Professor in Education, University of Auckland, New Zealand JASON TAN Associate Professor in Policy and Management Studies at the National Institute of Education, Singapore. SWEE-HIN TOH Professor of Education, University of Alberta, Canada PAUL WILDING Emeritus Professor, University of Manchester and adjunct Professor, City University of Hong Kong KIOK YOON Professor of Instructional Supervision, Inchon National University of Education, Korea