The Challenge of Eastern Asian Education: Implications for America

by Cummings, William K.; Altbach, Philip G.

• ISBN13: 9780791432839
• ISBN10: 0791432831
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-04-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Provides specific examples of Asian educational practice that may have relevance to the United States.There's nothing quite like this book. The organization of the topics is a plus, distinguishing between basic and secondary and not ignoring the private sector. The selection of authors is first-rate with a good mix of Asian and American experts". -- John N. Hawkins, UCLA Graduate School of Education, Comparative Education Dean, UCLA International Studies and Overseas ProgramsThe Challenge of Eastern Asian Education highlights how Asian education policy and practice challenge American schools. The book focuses on innovations that the nations of the Pacific Rim have developed for their schools, and it analyzes how these educational systems have tried to meet the challenges of rapid social and economic change. It is unique in that it provides in-depth coverage of the Asian approach to education and explicitly discusses the implications of Asian education for America.There is special interest in Asian countries, not only because of their unparalleled economic success, but because Asian societies have been held up as models for so

Table of Contents

List of Tables	ix
List of Figures	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(10)
William K. Cummings
Philip G. Altbach
I Basic Education
The Roots of Japanese Educational Achievement: Helping Children Develop Bonds to School	11	(22)
Catherine C. Lewis
The East Asian Version of Whole-Class Teaching	33	(18)
Harold W. Stevenson
Shinying Lee
Looking in the Chinese Mirror: Reflecting on Moral-Political Education in the United States	51	(14)
Gay Garland Reed
Chinese Teachers as Mirrors of Reform Possibilities	65	(22)
Lynn Paine
II Secondary Education
Restructuring Japanese High Schools: Reforms for Diversity	87	(14)
Nobuo K. Shimahara
Disruption and Reconnection: Counseling Young Adolescents in Japanese Schools	101	(14)
Gerald K. LeTendre
Human Capital Formation and School Expansion in Asia: Does a Unique Regional Model Exist?	115	(20)
David P. Baker
Donald B. Holsinger
III The Private Sector
Private Education in Eastern Asia	135	(18)
William K. Cummings
Lessons from Japanese Cram Schools	153	(20)
Nancy Ukai Russell
IV Linking Education to Society
Education and Work in Japan: Implications for Policy	173	(16)
Sam Stern
Education Policies in Taiwan (China) and Hong Kong	189	(16)
Kin Bing Wu
Improving School-Community Relations in Thailand	205	(18)
Christopher W. Wheeler
James Gallagher
Maureen McDonough
Benjalug Sookpokakit-Namfa
V The Relevance of Asian Education
Differences that Make a Difference: Explaining Japan's Success	223	(26)
Thomas P. Rohlen
Education and State Development: Lessons for the United States?	249	(16)
S. Gopinathan
The Role of the State in Educational Reform in the People's Republic of China	265	(10)
Nina Y. Borevskaya
Human Resource Development: The J-Model	275	(18)
William K. Cummings
Notes	293	(6)
References	299	(30)
Contributors	329	(4)
Index	333