Education as a Political Tool in Asia (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Lall, Marie; Vickers, Edward

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a fresh and comparative approach in questioning what education is being used for and what the effects of the politicization of education are on Asian societies in the era of globalization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134055135
• Artikelnr.: 42980544

Autorenporträt

Marie Lall is Lecturer in Education Policy at the Institute of Education, University of London and an associate fellow on the Asia Programme at Chatham House. Her research focuses on the politics of South Asia, in particular India and Pakistan, and on education policy with regard to gender, race and social exclusion in South Asia. She also works on issues of political economy, geopolitics, foreign policy formulation in South Asia and diaspora politics. She is the author of India's Missed Opportunity (published by Ashgate) and the editor of The Geopolitics of Energy in South Asia (publishes by ISEAS, Singapore). Edward Vickers is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Education at the Institute of Education, University of London. His research publications to date have focused primarily on the relationship between history education and the politics of nationalism in China and East Asia. He is the author of In Search of An Identity: The Politics of History as a School Subject in Hong Kong, 1960s-2002, and editor of History Education and National Identity in East Asia (both published by Routledge).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Michael Apple. Introduction Marie Lall 1. Education, Identity and
the Politics of Modern State Formation in Asia - A Comparative and
Historical Perspective Edward Vickers 2. The Inescapability of Politics?
Nationalism, Democratization and Social Order in Japanese Education Peter
Cave 3. The Opportunity of China? Education, Patriotic Values and the
Chinese State Edward Vickers 4. Education, Politics and the State in Hong
Kong Paul Morris 5. 'Creating Good Citizens, or a Competitive Workforce, or
Just Plain Political Socialisation?: Tensions in the Aims of Education in
Singapore' Christine Han 6. "Reverse! Now play fast forward": Education and
the Politics of Change in Malaysia Elwyn Thomas 7. Doi moi, Education and
Identity Formation in Contemporary Vietnam Matthieu Salomon and Vu Doan Ket
8. Globalization and the Fundamentalisation of Curricula; Lessons from
India Marie Lall 9. Education Dilemmas in Pakistan - The Current Curriculum
Reform Marie Lall 10. Non Piu Andrai: Bullets, Burqas, Books-Education
Policy and its Discontents in Communist and Taleban Afghanistan Patrick
Belton