Mok Globalization and Educational Restructuring in the Asia Pacific Region

2003
ISBN: 978-1-4039-9048-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 375 Seiten, eBook

The focus of this book is to examine the growing impact of globalization on education policy and development in the Asia Pacific region. It analyses the reaction of selected societies and the strategies that their governments have adopted in response to the tidal wave of marketization, corporization, commercialization and privatization. Particular attention is paid to educational restructuring in the context of globalization.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mok, K.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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