1st Edition
Education, Ethnicity, Society and Global Change in Asia The Selected Works of Gerard A. Postiglione
Introduction: Contexts, Processes, and Institutions
Part I: Contexts: Society and Education
Chapter 1: From Capitalism to Socialism? Hong Kong Education within a Transitional Society
Chapter 2: Education, in Understanding Chinese Society
Chapter 3: Contexts and Reform in East Asian Education – Making the Move from Periphery to Core
Part II: Cultural Processes: Pluralism and Assimilation
Chapter 4: Education of Ethnic Minority Groups in China
Chapter 5: Ethnic Minority Identity and Educational Outcomes in a Rising China
Chapter 6: Making Tibetans in China: The Educational Challenges of Harmonious Multiculturalism
Chapter 7: Dislocated Education: The Case of Tibet
Part III Institutions: Universities under Globalization
Chapter 8: Maintaining Global Engagement in the Face of National Integration in Hong Kong
Chapter 9: Anchoring Globalization in Hong Kong’s Research Universities: Network Agents, Institutional Arrangements and Brain Circulation
Chapter 10: The Rise of Research Universities: The Case of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Role of the Overseas Chinese Academic Profession
Chapter 11: Research Universities for National Rejuvenation and Global Influence: China’s Search for a Balanced Model
Chapter 12: Global Recession and Higher Education in Eastern Asia: China, Mongolia and Vietnam
Biography
Gerard A. Postiglione is Chair Professor of Higher Education, former Associate Dean for Research, and Director of the Wah Ching Centre on Education in China, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong.
Gerard Postiglione is perhaps the most prominent researcher working on education in Hong Kong and China. His work covers a range of themes – from the education of minorities in China to aspects of higher education. This volume provide an outstanding selection of thoughtful work from this top scholar. -- Philip G. Altbach, Research Professor and founding director, Center for International Higher Education, Boston College
Rooted in perspectives developed over several decades of research leadership at the University of Hong Kong, Gerard Postiglione’s scholarship illuminates issues of minority education and identity, higher education’s transformation in the East Asian context and the unique challenges surrounding Hong Kong’s transition from a British Colony to a Special Administrative Region of China. -- Ruth Hayhoe
