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High School for All in East Asia: Comparing Experiences book cover

1st Edition

High School for All in East Asia Comparing Experiences

Edited By Shinichi Aizawa, Mei Kagawa, Jeremy Rappleye Copyright 2019
278 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

278 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

278 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Although late to industrialize, East Asia has witnessed rapid development whilst maintaining some of the highest educational enrollment rates and indicators of academic achievement globally. From major players, such as China, to small city-states, such as Singapore, economic success and the growth of education have seemingly unfolded simultaneously. This book seeks to better understand the... Read more

Part I Introduction, Theoretical Framework, and Preliminary Comparisons

1. High School for All in East Asia, Shinichi Aizawa

2. Towards an original contribution based on 'Asian Ediucation'?: A Review of Existing Theories of Educational Expansion, Jeremy Rappleye

3. Upper Secondary Education in Asia: A Quantitative Comparison with Western Countries, Hirofumi Taki

Part II Mass High School Societies: Processes of Expansion and Consequences

4. Postwar Japan: Provision for the Expansion of High School Education in Postwar Japan, Mei Kagawa

5. Private and Vocational High Schools within the Expansion of Secondary Education: A Case Study of Korea, Mitsuharu Tanaka

6. Structural Analysis of the Expansion of Upper Secondary Education in Taiwan: Private Schooling, Public Demand, and the Twelve-Year Basis Education Policy, Yu-Fei (Sharon) Liu

Part III Mass Education City-States: Economic Centers and Secondary Expansion

7. Expansion Strategies of Singapore's Secondary Education Amidst Processes of Economic Transformation and Nation Building, Sim Choon Kiat

8. Foreseeing the New Educational Dream Just before the Post-industrial Reality - Equality, Mobility and the Expansion of Upper Secondary Schools in the 1980s, Yuk-Man Cheung, Yuet-Man Li and Ching-Wai Ho

Part IV Mass Education in Post-Communist Societies

9. Expansion of Upper Secondary Education, 1980-2010, Jin Jiang 

10. Challenges in Vietnamese Secondary Education During the Transitional Economy Era, Miho Ito

Part V Comparative Analyses and Conclusions

11. Maintaining High School Education in the Low-Fertility Societies of Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea, Mei Kagawa, Shinichi Aizawa and Mitsuharu Tanaka

12. Conclusion, Shinichi Aizawa and Jeremy Rappleye

Biography

Shinichi Aizawa is Associate Professor in the School of Contemporary Sociology at Chukyo University, Toyota, Japan. His research focuses on secondary education, social equality, development, and poverty from a comparative and historical sociological view. He was also Visiting Professor in Free University Berlin from 2016 to 2017.

Mei Kagawa is Lecturer at the Faculty of Sociology, Daito Bunka University, Japan. Her research focuses on school to work transition, life course, and secondary education.

Jeremy Rappleye is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Kyoto University, Japan. He was formerly a Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Special Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo (2009–2011).

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