Euro-Asian Encounters on 21st-Century Competency-Based Curriculum Reforms : Cultural Views on Globalization and Localization / edited by Weili Zhao, Daniel Tröhler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zhao, Weili, editor.

Tröhler, Daniel, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International education.

Comparative education.

Education--Curricula.

Education.

International and Comparative Education.

Curriculum Studies.

Local Subjects:

International and Comparative Education.

Curriculum Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2021.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2021.

Summary:

This book offers a geographically unique cultural comparative lens to examine the issue of transnational curriculum knowledge (re)production. Prompted by the ongoing competency-based curriculum reforms on a global scale, this book examines where global frameworks like the OECD’s core competency definitions are rooted and how they are borrowed, resisted, and/or re-contextualized in various European states with a Christian, foremost Protestant educational–cultural heritage and Asian countries with a Confucian educational–cultural heritage. It highlights the roles that various factors, such as history, culture, religious attitudes, ideology, and state governance play in nation-states’ re-contextualization of global curriculum policies and practices beyond a simplistic and dualistic globalism/power and nationalism/resistance dynamic. In doing so, it provides a global context to better understand individual nation-state’s continuing curriculum reforms and school practices. At the same time, it situates individual nation-state’s latest curriculum reforms and practices within an international community for healthy dialogues and mutual sharing. By selecting two educational–cultural systems and wisdom—Christian-Protestant and Confucian—it also offers a springboard for international curriculum studies beyond the usual confinement of geopolitical nation-state constructs. It not only sheds new light on each nation-state’s curriculum policies and practices, but also creates new collaboration spaces within similar and across disparate cultural–educational regions. With its wide geopolitical and educational–cultural scope, this book appeals to a global market and can be used in a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in comparative education, history of education, curriculum theory, school and society, and curriculum history.

Contents:

Part I: Introduction

Chapter 1: Euro-Asia Encounters on 21st-Century Competency-Based Curriculum Reforms: A Historical and Cultural (Re)Turn

Part II: The European Picture: Christian Protestant Ideals and Curriculum Reforms

Chapter 2: The Transformation of Christian Missions to Educational Colonization, or Motives of Speaking and Listening in the One-sided Euro-American-Asian Dialogue

Chapter 3: From Knowledge and Bildung toward Competences and Skills in Finnish Curriculum Policy? Some Theoretical, Historical, and Current Observations Related to Finland

Chapter 4: Historical Trajectories of the Contract-School Model in Norway

Chapter 5: Globalization and Localization in the Shaping of the Danish Public Education System: Recontextualization Processes in Four Historical Educational Reforms

Chapter 6: Fixing the Future: Public Discourse on the Implementation of Education Standards in Austria

Chapter 7: A Critical Review of the Competency-Based Curriculum in Spain

Chapter 8: Competence-Based Curriculum Reforms in the Context of University Engineering Education in the Post-Soviet Lithuania - Hope or Disappointment?

Part III: The East Asian Picture: Confucian Educational Cultures and Curriculum Reforms

Chapter 9: Nationalism and Globalism as Epistemic Entanglements: China’s Suyang Curriculum Reform as a Case Study

Chapter 10: Unpacking the Global-Local Entanglements in Hong Kong’s Curriculum Reform

Chapter 11: Competency-Based Curriculum Reform and its Making of Korean Global Citizen

Chapter 12: A Holistic Model of Competence: Curriculum Reforms for Preschool Education in Singapore

Chapter 13: The Global Inside the National and the National Inside the Global: ‘Zest for Living,’ the Chi, Toku and Tai Triad, and the ‘Model’ of Japanese Education.

ISBN:

9789811630095

9811630097

OCLC:

1260291834