Globalization and Educational Restructuring in the Asia Pacific Region

✍ Scribed by Ka-ho Mok, Anthony Welch (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 387
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Globalization, Structural Adjustment and Educational Reform....Pages 1-31
Reflections on Singapore’s Education Policies in an Age of Globalization....Pages 32-57
Globalization’s Challenges to Higher Education Governance in South Korea....Pages 58-78
Globalization, Localization and Education Reform in a New Democracy: Taiwan’s Experience....Pages 79-127
The Quest for Quality Education and a Learning Society in Hong Kong....Pages 128-159
Globalization and Educational Restructuring in China....Pages 160-188
Globalization and the Philippines’ Education System....Pages 189-231
Education and the Localization of Structural Adjustment in Cambodia....Pages 232-261
Globalization, Structural Adjustment and Contemporary Educational Reforms in Australia: The Politics of Reform, or the Reform of Politics?....Pages 262-301
The New Zealand Education Experiment: From Democratic Participation to Self-Management, and from Universal Welfare Entitlement to Private Investment....Pages 302-332
Conclusion: Deep Development or Deep Division?....Pages 333-355
Back Matter....Pages 357-375

✦ Subjects

Development Studies; Social Theory; Organic Chemistry; Urban Studies/Sociology; Administration, Organization and Leadership; Globalization

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