School Reform and Democracy in East Asia

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-55813-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 307 g

Reihe: Routledge Series on Schools and Schooling in Asia

This book discusses how East Asia has introduced school and curricular reform to reflect democratic citizenship and globalized skills, knowledge, dispositions, and competencies in the 21st century. It also focuses on the tendencies and reasons students from Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore receive the highest scores in international students’ assessment such as PISA and TIMSS; yet their curiosity and motivation for learning are the lowest internationally. Moreover, Indonesian and Vietnamese students are likely to receive the lowest testing scores, yet their motivation for learning is quite high. It is worth investigating high academic achievement in East Asia in light of the trend towards democratization. The authors consider controversial issues such as whether the goals of democratic education should be the attainment of high academic scores, consideration of whether to implement competency-based curriculums or meritocratic systems of academic competition, and the provision of equal opportunities in the community of learning. The book illuminates each country’s struggle to realise school reform on the basis of its social and cultural settings, and looks at what connects East Asia’s past, present, and future.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ueno, Masamichi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Weiterführende Schulen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Grundschulen, Hauptschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. School Reform and Democracy in Japan in the Global Era 2. The Case of School Reform in Korea: Seeking innovation of school culture 3. Curriculum Change and Teacher Education Reform in China in the Age of Globalisation 4. The Implementation of SLC in Taiwan: A new chapter in education of democracy 5. Problem-Based Learning in Singapore: A bridge between institutional and workplace learning 6. Democratisation and Education Reform in Indonesia 7. Shapes of Liberty: From the biographies of Vietnamese socialist teachers

Über Autor(innen)

Masamichi Ueno is Professor of Education at Sophia University, Japan, Visiting Professor at Shandong Normal University and Northwest University, China, and President of the Institute of East Asian Education.