1st Edition
East and West in Comparative Education Searching for New Perspectives
Introduction: The study of East and West in comparative education – towards a rationale SoongHee Han and Peter Jarvis
1. Learning to be a person – East and West Peter Jarvis
2. A historical comparison of intellectual renaissance in the East and the West Ki-Seok Kim and Sung Sik Kim
3. Learning as sociocultural practice: Chinese immigrant professionals negotiating differences and identities in the Canadian labour market Hongxia Shan and Shibao Guo
4. Changing grassroots communities and lifelong learning in Japan Atsushi Makino
5. Confucian states and learning life: making scholar-officials and social learning a political contestation SoongHee Han
6. Bridging East and West educational divides in Singapore Prem Kumar
7. Educational practice in India and its foundations in Indian heritage: a synthesis of the East and West? Madhu Singh
8. ASEM – the modern Silk Road: travelling ideas for education reforms and partnerships between Asia and Europe Que Anh Dang
Biography
SoongHee Han is Professor of Lifelong Learning in the Department of Education at Seoul National University, South Korea. He is the president-elect (2016-2018) of The Korean Society of Lifelong Education. His academic work has focused on developing a new platform for discourses on educational theory, especially centred on the framework of lifelong learning, learning societies, and complex learning ecologies. He has published articles in journals such as the International Review of Education, the International Journal of Lifelong Education, and the Asia Pacific Education Review.
Peter Jarvis is Emeritus Professor of Continuing Education at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. He is the editor of The Routledge International Handbook of Learning (with Mary Watts, 2012). He is the author of Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society (Routledge, 2008), a trilogy of volumes on lifelong learning; Learning to be a Person in Society (Routledge, 2009); and Adult Education and Lifelong Learning: Theory and Practice (Routledge, 4th ed., 2010). He is also founding editor of The International Journal of Lifelong Education – now in its 30th year.
