Globalization and recent shifts in educational policy in the Asia Pacific : an overview of some critical issues / Fazal Rizvi … [et al.].
Rizvi, Fazal.
Urbana-Champaign, USA : Asia-Pacific Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID), 2005.
59 p. ; 29 cm.
(APEID, UNESCO Bangkok Occasional Paper series paper No. 4)
Education – Asia.
Education – Asia--History.
Education – Pacific Area.
Educational planning – Asia.
Educational innovations – Asia.
Education – Asia--History.
Education – Pacific Area.
Educational planning – Asia.
Educational innovations – Asia.
Pamphlet LA 1051 .R59 2005
15334
August 2005.
Department of Educational Policy Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign USA—title page.
Asia-Pacific Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID)—cover page.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: 1. Introduction—2. The Asia Pacific—3. Interpreting globalization—4. Global drivers of educational change—5. Shifting purposes of education—6. Tensions of centralization and decentralization—7. Public and private funding of education—8. Issues of access and equity—9. Education of girls—10. Shifts in curriculum policy : issues of technology and the digital divide—11. Shifts in curriculum policy : the rise and rise of English—12. Internationalization and the global trade in higher education—13. Conclusion—Appendix—Endnotes.