Globalization and Educational Restructuring in the Asia Pacific Region

• Author : K. Mok,Anthony Welch
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 13 March 2003

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.

• Author : Nicholas Sun-keung Pang
• Publisher : Chinese University Press
• Release : 01 July 2022

Bringing together a group of international authors, this book attempts to examine the effects of globalization on educational policies and practices under the following themes: (1) the roles of educational research in the era of globalization and how comparative education can contribute to such investigation; (2) the relationships between the development of higher education and globalization in different countries; and (3) the impacts of globalization on school education and how schools can respond to the challenges ahead.

• Author : Macleans A. Geo-JaJa,Suzanne Majhanovich
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 04 November 2016

With its comprehensive coverage and quality this provocative book is concerned with the future of developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. By providing in-depth analysis of the economic, social and educational challenges of emerging states it offers an alternative roadmap to development. The authors in this collection substantiate the notion that emerging states often do not participate in policy choices related to their development when faced with universalization of curriculum and internationalization of education. The authors make explicit

• Author : John Chi-Kin Lee,Brian J. Caldwell
• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• Release : 27 April 2012

Much has been written about globalization and the challenge of preparing young people for the new world of work and life in times of complexity and continuous change. However, few works have examined how globalization has and will continue to shape education in the East. This volume discusses education within the context of globalization and examines what is occurring in schools and systems of education in the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Chinese Taipei, Singapore, and Australia. Closer examination

• Author : Yong Zhao,Jing Lei,Guofang Li,Ming Fang He,Kaori Okano,Nagwa Megahed,David Gamage,Hema Ramanathan
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 30 November 2010

Comprehensive and authoritative, this Handbook provides a nuanced description and analysis of educational systems, practices, and policies in Asian countries and explains and interprets these practices from cultural, social, historical, and economic perspectives. Using a culture-based framework, the volume is organized in five sections, each devoted to educational practices in one civilization in Asia: Sinic, Japanese, Islamic, Buddhist, and Hindu. Culture and culture identities essentially are civilization identities; the major differences among civilizations are rooted in their different cultures. This

• Author : Venesser Fernandes,Philip Wing Keung Chan
• Publisher : IAP
• Release : 01 December 2018

The Asia-Pacific region has rich and unique traditions, cultural diversity and common as well as unique challenges, including obstacles of language and geographical separation. As home to over 60 per cent of the world's population, this region has a diverse range of educational issues, which have not as yet been fully explored. This ground-breaking volume considers current perspectives on educational diversity, challenges and changes occurring across a number of countries in the region and provides a closer look at these complexities.

• Author : Terance W. Bigalke,Deane E. Neubauer
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 14 September 2009

Expansion and privatization have created new concerns over the quality of education throughout the Asia/Pacific region. This volume provides a framework to examine these challenges in the region and beyond.

• Author : J. Hawkins,K. Mok,D. Neubauer
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 25 October 2012

Asia is rapidly developing a wide variety of regional organizations and interactive patterns, reflecting in large part its increasing role in the global economic and political engagements. Higher Education constitutes a distinct sphere of activity within this overall pattern of regionalization.

• Author : Pedro N. Teixeira,David D. Dill
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 13 November 2011

Recent years have seen the strengthening of a discourse that emphasises the virtues of markets, competition and private initiative, vis-à-vis the vices of public intervention in higher education. This volume presents a timely reflection about the effects this increasing marketization has been producing in many higher education systems worldwide. The various chapters of this volume analyse the impact of markets at the system level, with significant attention being devoted to the changes in modes of regulation, the strengthening of

• Author : Ka-Ho Mok,Jason Tan
• Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Release : 01 January 2004

Mok (humanities and social sciences, City U. of Hong Kong) and Tan (education policy and management, Nanyang Technological U., Singapore) review the strategies their two governments have adopted to reform the education systems in response to the growing impact of globalization. They focus on financing, provision, and regulation. The two countries a.

• Author : Ka-ho Mok
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 28 June 2006

This book assesses the impact of globalization on the education systems of key East Asian countries, including China, Hong Kong, Japan, and the "tiger economies" of South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, examining how the increasingly interdependent economic system has driven policy change and education reform. It discusses how policy makers have responded to changes required in educational outcomes in order to equip their societies for new global conditions and explores the impact of new approaches and ideologies related to globalization,

• Author : Joseph Zajda,W. James Jacob
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 16 April 2022

This book examines some of the major higher education reforms and policy shifts globally, particularly in the light of recent shifts in quality and standards-driven education and policy research. It critiques the neo-liberal ideological imperatives of current higher education and policy reforms, and illustrates the way that changes in the relationship between the state and higher education policy affect current trends in higher education reforms. Using diverse comparative education paradigms from critical theory to historical-comparative research, the chapters focus on

• Author : Jak Jabes
• Publisher : Asian Development Bank
• Release : 01 January 2005

This publication is the first of a series from The Network of Asia-Pacific Schools and Institutes of Public Administration and Governance (NAPSIPAG), a network of professionals formed to encourage the continuing development of public administration theory and practice through research and other initiatives, and foster cooperation and collaboration between and among the members in pursuit of related and common interests.

• Author : Ann Anagnost,Andrea Arai,Hai Ren
• Publisher : Stanford University Press
• Release : 09 January 2013

The East Asian economic miracle of the twentieth century is now a fond memory. What does it mean to be living in post-miracle times? For the youth of China, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea, the opportunities and challenges of the neoliberal age, deeply shaped by global forces in labor markets, powerfully frame their life prospects in ways that are barely recognizable to their parents. Global Futures in East Asia gathers together ethnographic explorations of what its contributors call projects of "

• Author : Fred Lazin,N. Jayaram,Matt Evans
• Publisher : Lexington Books
• Release : 10 July 2012

This volume provides a broad overview of recent higher education policy in a variety of countries, both developed and developing, around the world. Using interdisciplinary methods and analysis, it focuses on how diminishing governmental resources and expanding market forces influence higher education policy in different countries in terms of access, minority status (including ethnic, national and gender groups), affirmative action, quality, and performance.