The Oxford Handbook of Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific Region

Herausgeber: Kapur, Devesh; Malone, David M; Lo, Florence; Kong, Lily

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Produktbeschreibung

With three of the world's largest economies, Asia is poised to home half of the world's middle class--both the driver and the product of higher education. This Handbook presents country case-studies and explores cross-cutting trends to offer an understanding of higher education achievements, failings, potential, and limitations in the region.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Saunders College Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 976
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 253mm x 180mm x 60mm
• Gewicht: 1833g
• ISBN-13: 9780192845986
• ISBN-10: 0192845985
• Artikelnr.: 66165343

Autorenporträt

Devesh Kapur is Starr Foundation South Asia Studies Professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. His recent books include Navigating the Labyrinth: Perspectives on India's Higher Education and The Other One Percent: Indians in America. Lily Kong is President of the Singapore Management University and Lee Kong Chian Chair Professor of Social Sciences. Her research focuses on social and cultural change in Asian cities and she has published widely on topics such as religion, cultural policy, creative industries, smart cities, urban heritage, and education. Florence Lo is the Legal Specialist at the United Nations University (UNU). Prior to joining UNU, she worked as a legal practitioner in Southeast Asia providing legal and regulatory advice across a broad range of practice areas including project financing, banking and security, land and property, and labour and employment law. David Malone is UN Under-Secretary General, Rector of the United Nations University (UNU). Prior to joining UNU he served as President of Canada's International Development Research Centre (2008-2013) and as Canada's High Commissioner to India and non-resident Ambassador to Bhutan and Nepal (2006-2008).

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* Introduction
* I. History
* 1: Deane Neubauer: History of Higher Education in Asia-Pacific
* II. Goals, Growth, and Massification
* 2: Malcolm Tight: From Elite Higher Education to Massification: The
Asia-Pacific Experience
* 3: Roslyn Cameron and John Burgess: Employment and Labour Markets
* 4: Arnoud De Meyer: Productive Workers or Better Citizens?
* III. Who Learns?
* 5: Prompilai Buasuwan and Arisara Leksansern: Access
* 6: Elizabeth M. King: Gender in Higher Education in The Asia-Pacific
Region: Vertical Progress, Horizontal Segregation, and a Leaky
Pipeline
* IV. What: Content and Learning in Higher Education
* 7: Johanna Waters: The Relationship Between Credentials and Learning:
A Focus on International Educational Value and Distinction
* 8: Mikiko Nishimura: Liberal Arts and Sciences Education for the 21st
Century in Asia
* 9: Aki Yamada: STEM Field Demand and Educational Reform in
Asia-Pacific Countries
* 10: William Yat Wai Lo and Ryan M. Allen: The Rankings Game
* 11: Sheng-Ju Chan and Hua-Chi Chou: Professional Education: Models
and Issues
* V. How and Who?
* 12: Angela Yung Chi Hou, I-Jung Grace Lu, Karen Hui Jung Chen, and
Chao Yu Guo: Quality Regulation in Higher Education in Asia-Pacific:
Roles of Quality Assurance and National Qualification Frameworks
* 13: K.C. Ho, Ravinder Sidhu, and Brenda S.A. Yeoh:
Internationalisation and Education-Related Mobility in Asia-Pacific
Universities
* 14: Christopher S. Collins and Alexander H. Jones:
Internationalization and Mobility: Providers, Academic Collaborators
and Recognition of Qualifications
* 15: Kris Olds: Education Hubs in the Asia-Pacific
* 16: Melinda dela Peña Bandalaria and Alexandra Ivanovic: Open
University Systems
* 17: Helen Farley: MOOCs in Asia: Promise Unfulfilled or Promise
Realised?
* VI. Costs: Who Pays?
* 18: Xi Wang and W. James Jacob: Public Financing
* 19: Swee-Sum Lam: Private Philanthropy in Higher Education in Asia
* 20: Adrian Ziderman: Student Loans in Practice: Benefits and Pitfalls
of Loans Schemes in Asia
* VII. Consequences and Challenges
* 21: Rennie J. Moon: Returning Talent
* 22: Youngsuk Chi and John Van Orden: Asia as a Producer of Knowledge
* 23: Jack T. Lee: Asian Higher Education as Soft Power?
* 24: Christopher D. Hammond: Higher Education and Nationalism in the
Asia-Pacific
* 25: Hongxia Shan and Zheng Ren: Lifelong Learning as a Globally
Diffused Policy Discourse in Asia
* VIII. Country Studies
* 26: Wenqin Shen and Wanhua Ma: China: Historical and Contemporary
Development of Higher Education
* 27: Lan Xue, Zhen Yu, and Zhou Zhong: Elite Universities in China
* 28: Niraja Gopal Jayal: India: History and Thrust of Overall Higher
Education and Research Patterns
* 29: Pratap Bhanu Mehta: Private Universities in India: New Dawn or
False Dawn?
* 30: Akiyoshi Yonezawa: Japan: The Changing Role of Higher Education
for Nation-Building
* 31: Miki Sugimura and Shinobu Yume Yamaguchi: Japan: Challenges in
Internationalization of its Higher Education Sector
* 32: Jang Wan Ko: Higher Education in the Republic of Korea
* 33: S. Gopinathan and Michael H. Lee: Singapore: The Making of Higher
Education in an Asian Education Hub
* 34: Jin Jiang: Higher Education in Hong Kong: Recent Developments and
Challenges
* 35: Anthony Welch: Australia: History Versus Geography in an Evolving
National System
* 36: Kathryn A. Sutherland and Stephen J. Marshall: Education for All?
Higher Education at a Crossroads in Aotearoa New Zealand
* 37: Chiara Logli and Hermin Indah Wahyuni: Indonesia: The Politics of
Equity and Quality in Higher Education
* 38: Chang Da Wan: Higher Education in Malaysia
* 39: Prachayani Praphamontripong Kanwar and Florence Lo: Privatized
Higher Education in Thailand: In Pursuit of Legitimacy and
Profitability
* 40: Marie Lall, Camille Kandiko Howson, and Aye Aye Tun: Higher
Education in Myanmar
* 41: Maria Cynthia Rose Bautista, Vicente Paqueo, and Aniceto Orbeta
Jr: Philippine Higher Education: A Case for Public-Private
Complementarity in the Next Normal