1st Edition
Education and Society in Bhutan Tradition and modernisation
By Chelsea M. Robles
Copyright 2016
148 Pages
by
Routledge
148 Pages
by
Routledge
148 Pages
by
Routledge
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Bhutan's education sector has attracted international attention for recent reforms driven by the national development philosophy of Gross National Happiness, which aspires to balance change with the continuity of tradition. This book traces the history of education in Bhutan and reveals that, as the country has modernised and become globally connected and further influenced by international and... Read more
1. Introduction
2. The development of modern education in Bhutan
3. Competing ideas at the political and policy level
4. The translation of policy into the living and designed curriculum
5. At the juncture of change: Teachers as mediators of traditional and modern knowledges in state education
6. Looking across three levels of Bhutan's education sector
7. Implications for present and future developments in education
Biography
Chelsea M. Robles is a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University, Japan. Her work focuses on education policy and practice.
