Educational Import : Local Encounters with Global Forces in Mongolia

by Steiner-Khamsi, Gita; Stolpe, Ines

• ISBN13: 9781403968111
• ISBN10: 140396811X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-17
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In this fascinating new book, Gita Steiner-Khamsi and Ines Stolpe explore Mongolia as an emblem of how global influences shape domestic developments in education, and in turn, how imported education reforms are locally modified, recontextualized, or "Mongolized." Why have imported policies such as vouchers, student-centered learning, or outcomes-based education, resonated in postsocialist Mongolia, and how have they been modified to fit the local context? Is an adoption of externally induced school reforms a sign of globalization in education? Steiner-Khamsi and Stolpe raise the important question of whether we should read such developments as evidence that educational systems in different corners of the world are gradually converging toward an international model. Educational Import is a compelling new look at globalization for all students, practitioners, and scholars of educational policy studies. Book jacket.

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