Globalization and educational restructuring in the Asia Pacific region / edited by Ka-ho Mok and Anthony Welch.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Mok, Ka-Ho, 1964-
• Welch, Anthony R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Education and state--Asia.
• Education and state.
• Educational change.
• Asia.
• Education and state--Pacific Area.
• Pacific Area.
• Educational change--Asia.
• Educational change--Pacific Area.
• Globalization.

Physical Description:

xiii, 375 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Summary:

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

Contents:

• 1 Globalization, Structural Adjustment and Educational Reform / Ka-ho Mok, Anthony Welch 1
• 2 Reflections on Singapore's Education Politics in an Age of Globalization / Jason Tan 32
• 3 Globalization's Challenges to Higher Education Governance in South Korea / Ka-ho Mok, Kiok Yoon, Anthony Welch 58
• 4 Globalization, Localization and Education Reform in a New Democracy: Taiwan's Experience / Wing-wah Law 79
• 5 The Quest for Quality Education and a Learning Society in Hong Kong / Ka-ho Mok, Paul Wilding 128
• 6 Globalization and Educational Restructuring in China / King-lun Ngok, Julia Kwong 160
• 7 Globalization and the Philippines' Education System / Swee-hin Toh, Virginia Floresca-Cawagas 189
• 8 Education and the Localization of Structural Adjustment in Cambodia / David Ayres 232
• 9 Globalization, Structural Adjustment and Contemporary Educational Reforms in Australia: The Politics of Reform, or the Reform of Politics? / Anthony Welch 262
• 10 The New Zealand Education Experiment: From Democratic Participation to Self-Management, and From Universal Welfare Entitlement to Private Investment / Michael Peters 302
• 11 Conclusion: Deep Development or Deep Division? / Anthony Welch, Ka-ho Mok 333.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0333770730

OCLC:

50403857