1st Edition

Education Reform and Education Policy in East Asia

By Ka-ho Mok Copyright 2006
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

This book assesses the impact of globalization on the education systems of key East Asian countries, including China, Hong Kong, Japan, and the "tiger economies" of South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, examining how the increasingly interdependent economic system has driven policy change and education reform. It discusses how policy makers have responded to changes required in... Read more

Table of contents

List of figures

List of tables

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part One: Education systems, policy change and education reforms

1. Globalization and structural adjustments: changing policy

2. Instruments and regulatory arrangements in education

3. Education systems and policy change in East Asia

4. Education in East Asian Tigers: regulation, provision and funding

5. Higher education in East Asia: common challenges and emerging trends

Part Two: Globalization and national responses

6. China’s response to globalization: educational decentralization and marketization in Post-Mao China

7. Hong Kong’s responses to globalization: questing for entrepreneurial universities

8. Singapore’s responses to globalization: marketization of education

9. Taiwan’s responses to globalization: changing governance in higher education

10. South Korea’s responses to globalization: internationalization of education

11. Japan’s responses to globalization: corporatization and changing university governance

12. Discussions and conclusions: globalization and education

References

Index

Biography

Centralization and Decentralization: Educational Reforms and  Changing Governance in Chinese Societies (Kluwer, 2003)

Globalization and Marketization: A Comparative Analysis of Hong Kong and Singapore (Edward Elgar, 2004).