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Education, often seen as a means of ideological control and economic development, gains socio-political importance in transitional societies. This chapter reviews the literature on planned education reform and transitional societies, before introducing five major theories of social change – structural-functionalism, conflict theory, globalization, democratization, and game theory – to help explain the impact of changing social structures, technology, economics, and international factors on education reform.
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Kwok, Kh. (2017). Social Change and Educational Change. In: When Education Meets Politics in Taiwan. Spotlight on China. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-152-0_2
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