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Public Good in Asian Higher Education

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This chapter explores public good within traditional Western frameworks and through a hybrid of Asian values and philosophies. Government or public investments, like education, are often evaluated in a binary of individual or social benefits. Although the benefits are not mutually exclusive, they are distinct, and applications of the benefits vary across regions around the world. A variety of sources are used in this chapter to explore the contemporary approach to public good in Asian societies and the corresponding systems of higher education. In an effort to more concretely unpack the notion of public good in Asian societies, this chapter includes a brief overview of relevant ancient philosophies that preexisted the liberal and Western constructs.

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  1. Department of Higher Education, Azusa Pacific University, CA, USA

    Christopher S. Collins

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    Christopher S. Collins

  2. The HEAD Foundation, Singapore, Singapore

    Molly N.N. Lee

  3. Education Department, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

    John N. Hawkins

  4. Education Department, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

    Deane E. Neubauer

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Collins, C.S. (2016). Public Good in Asian Higher Education. In: Collins, C., Lee, M., Hawkins, J., Neubauer, D. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Asia Pacific Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48739-1_6

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