Educational Import Local Encounters with Global Forces in Mongolia

by Steiner-Khamsi, Gita; Stolpe, Ines

• ISBN13: 9781403968104
• ISBN10: 1403968101
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-30
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book addresses students, practitioners, and scholars in educational policy studies. The authors use Mongolia as a case to illustrate how global influences shape domestic developments in education, and how imported education reforms are locally modified, re-contextualized, or "Mongolized."

Author Biography

Gita Steiner-Khamsi is professor of comparative and international education at Teachers College, Columbia University.  Ines Stolpe is lecturer of Mongolian Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin.

Table of Contents

List of Tables, Figures, Maps, and Photographs	vi
Acknowledgments	vii
1. Going Global: Studying Late Adopters of Traveling Reforms	1	(22)
2. Educational Import in Mongolia: A Historical Perspective	23	(28)
3. Bypassing Capitalism	51	(16)
4. Exchanging Allies: From Internationalist to International Cooperation	67	(18)
5. Structural Adjustment Reforms, Ten Years Later	85	(24)
6. The Mongolization of Student-Centered Learning	109	(22)
7. Outcomes-Based Education: Banking on Policy Import	131	(16)
8. Speaking the Language of the New Allies with the Voucher (Non-) Reform	147	(18)
9. What if There is Nothing to Borrow? The Long Decade of Neglect in Nomadic Education	165	(20)
10. Bending and Borrowing in Mongolia, and Beyond	185	(20)
Notes	205	(12)
References	217	(24)
Index	241