1st Edition

Public Education Reform and Network Governance Lessons From Chinese State-Owned Enterprise Schools

By Philip Wing Keung Chan Copyright 2019
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

This book is located in the field of education governance and sits amidst debates on public school reform in China. It examines how a top-down policy approach has been implemented from central government right down to the district level within the public education system in China. It shows the way networks support negotiation and bargaining at the district level which, in turn, influences the... Read more

Series Editor’s Overview



Acknowledgments



List of Figures



List of Appendices



List of Abbreviations



Glossary



1. Introduction and Key Terms



2. Education and Modes of Governing



3. Theorising Network Governance



4. The Trajectory of State-owned Enterprise Education



5. Modes of Governance in SOE Schooling



6. Policy Implementation Through the Transaction of Differentially Valued Resources



7. Governing Public Education Reform in China



References



Appendices



Index

Biography

Philip Wing Keung Chan is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Monash University. He has worked in course development and training at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Federation of Education Workers. He is a convenor of the Chinese Education Research Team and a series editor of the Asia Pacific Education Book Series of Monash University Publishing. His authored/edited books are Asia Pacific Education: Diversity, Challenges and Changes (Monash University Publishing, 2012), Equality in Education: Fairness and Inclusion (Sense Publishers, 2014), Asia as Method in Education Studies: A Defiant Imagination (Routledge, 2015), Asia Pacific Education: Leadership, Governance and Administration (Information Age Publishing, 2018) and Comparing Expert Teachers: Lessons from Finland, Hong Kong, the US and Australia (Routledge, forthcoming).