Asian Education

This reissue (1987) studies the practical and intellectual import of China's educational relations with the industrialised West, the Soviet Union and Japan. It provides a broad historical and philosophical context within which the possibilities and dangers inherent in China's educational involvement..

This reissue (1979) is the detailed study that arose from the visit of the US State Education Leaders Delegation to China. This visit observed and discussed the new directions in China's schools; the delegation was led by one of America's foremost philosophers of education, Ralph W. Tyler, and inclu..

This reissue (1996) provides an in-depth analysis of the development of the Chinese university during the twentieth century – a period of momentous social, economic, cultural and political change. It brings together reflections on the Chinese university and its role in the two great experiments of m..

This book, first published in 1991, seeks to place Chinese educational policies within the broader social context of Chinese development and modernisation imperatives by analysing issues germane to specific educational structures and sectors...

In place of a distributive justice perspective which focuses simply on equal access to universities, this book presents a broader understanding of the relationship between Chinese higher education and economic and social change. The necessity for research on the place of universities in contemporary..

Education is seen by the Chinese as a key element in the modernisation of their country and in maintaining socialism. This book, first published in 1984, examines the nature of modern education in China since 1976, and looks at different parts of the system, the content of teaching and teaching styl..

This book, first published in 1992, provides an overview of programs for young children in countries and territories of the Pacific Rim. It focuses on programs which precede the beginning of formal schooling and that are part of the institutional structure of the country...

This book, first published in 1993, provides students and scholars with an introduction to Korean education and the dynamics of interchange between the educational system and rapidly changing Korean society. Severe political, social and educational problems may be found in modern Korea...

This book traces the history of education in Bhutan and reveals that, as the country has modernised and become globally connected and further influenced by international and Western mores, tensions have emerged across the education sector. Filling a gap in the literature, this book is an invaluable ..

The post-Mao period has witnessed rapid social and economic transformation in all walks of Chinese life – much of it fuelled by, or reflected in, changes to education. In this book, Vickers and Zeng analyse the development of the education system since the abandonment of radical Maoism and the inaug..

This book, first published in 1970 and revised in 1975, lays out the background to the Chinese educational system and attempts of the communist leadership to reform the school system. It analyses the educational implications of the Cultural Revolution and the difficulties Mao faced in his attempts t..

This reissues (1989) includes essays on the most important topics in Japanese education as well as the highly selected, and annotated, bibliographies. It is the editors' belief that understanding educational matters requires insight into the historical context, and have placed contemporary Japanese ..