This book addresses students, practitioners, and scholars in educational policy studies. The authors use Mongolia as a case to illustrate how global influences shape domestic developments in education, and how imported education reforms are locally modified, re-contextualized, or "Mongolized."
Author(s): Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Ines Stolpe
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 256
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables, Figures, Maps, and Photographs......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 8
1 Going Global: Studying Late Adopters of Traveling Reforms......Page 12
2 Educational Import in Mongolia: A Historical Perspective......Page 34
3 Bypassing Capitalism......Page 62
4 Exchanging Allies: From Internationalist to International Cooperation......Page 78
5 Structural Adjustment Reforms, Ten Years Later......Page 96
6 The Mongolization of Student-Centered Learning......Page 120
7 Outcomes-Based Education: Banking on Policy Import......Page 142
8 Speaking the Language of the New Allies with the Voucher (Non-) Reform......Page 158
9 What if There is Nothing to Borrow? The Long Decade of Neglect in Nomadic Education......Page 176
10 Bending and Borrowing in Mongolia, and Beyond......Page 196
Notes......Page 216
References......Page 228
C......Page 252
G......Page 253
L......Page 254
O......Page 255
S......Page 256
Z......Page 257
