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Dragon gate : competitive examinations and their consequences / Kangmin Zeng.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zeng, Kangmin.
- Series:
- Frontiers of international education.
- Frontiers of international education
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Universities and colleges--East Asia--Entrance examinations--Social aspects.
- Universities and colleges.
- Universities and colleges--East Asia--Entrance examinations--Psychological aspects.
- Competition (Psychology).
- Education--East Asia.
- Education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 366 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Cassell, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text examines the enormous pressure placed on University students in Japan, Korea and Taiwan which have led to the rapid expansion of the ""cramming"" industry and to a growing number of students looking to religion and spirituality for guidance. The book examines the issue of the rise in youth suicides, and the dramatic rise in levels of cheating; both raising fundamental questions about the education system in the late 1990's.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes; List of tables; List of figures; 1 Introduction; 2 A comparative history of university entrance examinations: to the end of the Japanese Empire; 3 A comparative history of university entrance examinations: from 1945 to now; 4 What kind of exams? Questions of world history and mathematics in the three countries; 5 The cram world: why so large in East Asia?; 6 With help from the gods: prayer, luck and spiritual strength: the desecularization of entrance exam systems; 7 Time, effort and money: mobilizing private resources to gain social status; 8 The news media and the dark side of the exam systems 9 Conclusion; Appendix: Key to abbreviated citations; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611291402
- 9781281291400
- 1281291404
- 9781847143426
- 1847143423
- OCLC:
- 568434704
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