The focus of this book is to examine the growing impact of globalization on education policy and development in the Asia Pacific region. It analyzes the reaction of selected societies and the strategies that their governments have adopted in response to the tidal wave of marketization, corporatization, commercialization, and privatization. Particular attention is paid to educational restructuring in the context of globalization.
Author(s): Ka-ho Mok, Bryant Welch
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 288
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Notes on the Contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 14
1 Globalization, Structural Adjustment and Educational Reform......Page 16
2 Reflections on Singapore’s Education Policies in an Age of Globalization......Page 47
3 Globalization’s Challenges to Higher Education Governance in South Korea......Page 73
4 Globalization, Localization and Education Reform in a New Democracy: Taiwan’s Experience......Page 94
5 The Quest for Quality Education and a Learning Society in Hong Kong......Page 143
6 Globalization and Educational Restructuring in China......Page 175
7 Globalization and the Philippines’ Education System......Page 204
8 Education and the Localization of Structural Adjustment in Cambodia......Page 247
9 Globalization, Structural Adjustment and Contemporary Educational Reforms in Australia: The Politics of Reform, or the Reform of Politics?......Page 277
10 The New Zealand Education Experiment: From Democratic Participation to Self-Management, and from Universal Welfare Entitlement to Private Investment......Page 317
11 Conclusion: Deep Development or Deep Division?......Page 348
Index......Page 372
