New Paradigm for Re-engineering Education: Globalization, Localization and Individualization

✍ Scribed by Yin Cheong Cheng (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 508
• Series: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects 6
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In response to the challenges of globalization and local development, educational reforms are inevitably becoming one of the major trends in the Asia-Pacific Region or other parts of the world. Based on the most recent research and international observations, this book aims to present a new paradigm including various new concepts, frameworks and theories for reengineering education. It can provide educators, school leaders and practitioners, educational officials, change agents, researchers, and policy-makers with a comprehensive new perspective to implement educational reforms, enhance leadership, and change school management in a context of globalization, localization and individualization.

This book has 21 chapters in three sections. Section I "New Paradigm of Educational Reform" including eight chapters, illustrates the new paradigm and frameworks of reengineering education, fostering human development and analysing reform policies and also discusses the trends and challenges of educational reforms in the Asia-Pacific Region.

Section II "New Paradigm of Educational Leadership" with five chapters aims to elaborate how the nature, role and practice of school leadership can be transformed towards a new paradigm and respond to the three waves of education reforms.

Section III "Reengineering School Management for Effectiveness" with eight chapters aims to provide various practical frameworks for reengineering school management processes and implementing changes in school practices.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction....Pages 1-15
New Paradigm for Education Reforms: Globalization, Localization, and Individualization....Pages 19-44
Three Waves of Education Reform: Internal, Interface, and Future....Pages 45-71
Fostering Local Knowledge and Human Development in Globalization of Education....Pages 73-94
A Theory of Self-learning in a Networked Human and IT Environment....Pages 95-115
Economic Considerations in Education Reforms and Policymaking....Pages 117-145
A Comprehensive Framework for Analysis of Education Reform Policy....Pages 147-165
Education Reforms in the Asia-Pacific Region: Trends, Challenges, and Research....Pages 167-189
Education Reforms Towards the Third Wave: The Case of Hong Kong....Pages 191-209
New Paradigm of School Leadership....Pages 213-242
School Leadership and Three Waves of Education Reforms....Pages 243-260
Leadership for Strategic Management and Action Learning....Pages 261-282
Leadership and School Performance....Pages 283-298
Characteristics of Principals’ Leadership and Influence of Societal Culture....Pages 299-318
Evaluating School Effectiveness....Pages 321-341
Monitoring Education Quality at Multi-levels....Pages 343-367
Studying Cultural Factors in Educational Effectiveness....Pages 369-396
Managing Teacher Effectiveness....Pages 397-425
Implementing Multi-level Self-management in Schools....Pages 427-455
Reengineering Total Home-school Partnership....Pages 457-474
Managing Parental Involvement in Education with a New Framework....Pages 475-488
Managing School Crisis with Multiple Perspectives....Pages 489-505

✦ Subjects

Education (general); Leadership & Administration; Comparative Education