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9780333770733

Globalization and Educational Restructuring in Asia and the Pacific Region

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  • ISBN13:

    9780333770733

  • ISBN10:

    0333770730

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2003-05-30
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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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.

Author Biography

Ka-ho Mok is Assistant Professor, Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong.

Anthony Welch is Associate Professor, School of Policy and Practice, Faculty of Education, University of Sydney.

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors vii
Preface x
Acknowledgements xiii
Globalization, Structural Adjustment and Educational Reform
1(31)
Ka-ho Mok
Anthony Welch
Reflections on Singapore's Education Politics in an Age of Globalization
32(26)
Jason Tan
Globalization's Challenges to Higher Education Governance in South Korea
58(21)
Ka-ho Mok
Kiok Yoon
Anthony Welch
Globalization, Localization and Education Reform in a New Democracy: Taiwan's Experience
79(49)
Wing-wah Law
The Quest for Quality Education and a Learning Society in Hong Kong
128(32)
Ka-ho Mok
Paul Wilding
Globalization and Educational Restructuring in China
160(29)
King-lun Ngok
Julia Kwong
Globalization and the Philippines' Education System
189(43)
Swee-hin Toh
Virginia Floresca-Cawagas
Education and the Localization of Structural Adjustment in Cambodia
232(30)
David Ayres
Globalization, Structural Adjustment and Contemporary Educational Reforms in Australia: The Politics of Reform, or the Reform of Politics?
262(40)
Anthony Welch
The New Zealand Education Experiment: From Democratic Participation to Self-Management, and From Universal Welfare Entitlement to Private Investment
302(31)
Michael Peters
Conclusion: Deep Development or Deep Division?
333(24)
Anthony Welch
Ka-ho Mok
Index 357

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