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Globalization and Educational Restructuring in the Asia Pacific Region

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Editors:
  1. Ka-ho Mok

    1. Comparative Education Policy Research Unit, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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  2. Anthony Welch

    1. University of Sydney, Australia

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Globalization, Structural Adjustment and Educational Reform

    • Ka-ho Mok, Anthony Welch
    Pages 1-31

  3. Reflections on Singapore’s Education Policies in an Age of Globalization

    • Jason Tan
    Pages 32-57

  4. Globalization’s Challenges to Higher Education Governance in South Korea

    • Ka-ho Mok, Kiok Yoon, Anthony Welch
    Pages 58-78

  5. Globalization, Localization and Education Reform in a New Democracy: Taiwan’s Experience

    • Wing-wah Law
    Pages 79-127

  6. The Quest for Quality Education and a Learning Society in Hong Kong

    • Ka-ho Mok, Paul Wilding
    Pages 128-159

  7. Globalization and Educational Restructuring in China

    • King-lun Ngok, Julia Kwong
    Pages 160-188

  8. Globalization and the Philippines’ Education System

    • Swee-hin Toh, Virginia Floresca-Cawagas
    Pages 189-231

  9. Education and the Localization of Structural Adjustment in Cambodia

    • David Ayres
    Pages 232-261

  10. Globalization, Structural Adjustment and Contemporary Educational Reforms in Australia: The Politics of Reform, or the Reform of Politics?

    • Anthony Welch
    Pages 262-301

  11. The New Zealand Education Experiment: From Democratic Participation to Self-Management, and from Universal Welfare Entitlement to Private Investment

    • Michael Peters
    Pages 302-332

  12. Conclusion: Deep Development or Deep Division?

    • Anthony Welch, Ka-ho Mok
    Pages 333-355

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 357-375
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The focus of this book is to examine the growing impact of globalization on education policy and development in the Asia Pacific region. It analyses the reaction of selected societies and the strategies that their governments have adopted in response to the tidal wave of marketization, corporization, commercialization and privatization. Particular attention is paid to educational restructuring in the context of globalization.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Comparative Education Policy Research Unit, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Ka-ho Mok

  • University of Sydney, Australia

    Anthony Welch

About the editors

DAVID AYRES Acknowledged expert of Cambodian reforms JULIA KWONG Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Manitoba, Canada. WING-WAH LAW Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong KING-IUN NGOK Member of the Comparative Education Policy Research Unit and Instructor in the Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong MICHAEL PETERS Professor of Education, Glasgow University and adjunct Professor in Education, University of Auckland, New Zealand JASON TAN Associate Professor in Policy and Management Studies at the National Institute of Education, Singapore. SWEE-HIN TOH Professor of Education, University of Alberta, Canada PAUL WILDING Emeritus Professor, University of Manchester and adjunct Professor, City University of Hong Kong KIOK YOON Professor of Instructional Supervision, Inchon National University of Education, Korea

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