Higher Education Regionalization in Asia Pacific Implications for Governance, Citizenship and University Transformation

by Hawkins, John N.; Mok, Ka Ho; Neubauer, Deane E.

• ISBN13: 9781137002877
• ISBN10: 1137002875
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-11-13
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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, being the site of a wide range of organizational efforts to promote this outcome. Within this overall pattern, however, one can observe important differences in how patterns of national development persist in some instances and are overcome in others by the forces propelling regionalization. This volume seeks to provide a useful conceptual structure for description and analysis of these phenomena, illustrated by insightful case studies of the role being performed in this overall regionalization by individual countries.

Author Biography

Ka Ho Mok is Chair Professor of Comparative Policy, concurrently Associate Vice President (External Relations) and Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences, The Hong Kong Institute of Education. He has researched and published extensively in comparative development and policy studies with focus on Asia.

John N. Hawkins is Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences and Comparative Education at the University of California, Los Angeles and senior advisor to the International Forum for Education Program of the East West Center. He is also Director of the Center for International and Development Education at UCLA.

Deane E. Neubauer is Emeritus Professor of Political Science and senior advisor to the International Forum For Education program of the East-West Center. He is editor or co-editor of several previous volumes appearing in this series.

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