Educational Reforms In Russia And China At The Turn Of The 21st Century

Author : V. P. Borisenkov,Xiaoman Zhu
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Comparative education
ISBN : 9881785243

Get Book

Educational Reforms in Russia and China at the Turn of the 21st Century by V. P. Borisenkov,Xiaoman Zhu Pdf

This important study of educational reform in Russia and China brings to the global research community in comparative education a detailed and thoughtful analysis of the parallel yet divergent educational policies and developments in the two societies over the past 25 years. The intent of the study is both academic and ameliorative--scholars from both countries who contributed to the volume are interested in what can be learned from the experiences of the other, and in understanding more generally the common and divergent patterns of educational transition. Striking comparisons between two societies come up in the dialogues on many related themes. Differences between the "shock therapy" approach to political change in Russia and the gradual change of the Chinese communist system, and their respective educational implications, constitute a central feature of the analysis in this volume.

Author : Suzanne Pepper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000-07-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521778603

Get Book

Radicalism and Education Reform in 20th-Century China by Suzanne Pepper Pdf

The first comprehensive book to cover the whole sweep of twentieth-century Chinese education.

Author : David Johnson
Publisher : Symposium Books Ltd
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781873927410

Get Book

Politics, Modernisation and Educational Reform in Russia by David Johnson Pdf

The chapters in this volume give an account of the process of modernisation and educational reform in Russia, variously considering the cultural and political dilemmas provoked by democratisation, the structural and policy challenges associated with the reform of higher and vocational education, and the deep divisions exposed as socio-cultural activity is brought into alignment with the new discourse of freedom and choice. The volume stimulates an important debate about the methods that inform cross-national and cross-regional work on educational change. This is particularly salient in a study of educational reform in Russia, and begs the question, ‘whose way of thinking, of constructing meaning, and of experiencing the world’ is used to judge the weight and the direction of change? Each chapter shows that a thorough understanding of the nature of change and the direction of reform is only achieved through the ability to decentre - or take on board - the ‘other’ worldview. It argues, therefore, that it is worldview, rather than culture or nation-state, that is the most valid unit of analysis. This book pays tribute to K.D. Ushinsky (1824-70), ‘the Russian pioneer of comparative education’, each chapter in it broadly in agreement with his conclusions that: Public education does not solve the problems of life by itself; it does not lead history; rather, it follows the historical development. It is not the pedagogies or the teachers who create the future, but the people themselves and their great men. Education only follows this road and, in combination with other public (social) factors, helps the individual and the rising generation on its way.

Author : Maia Chankseliani,Iveta Silova
Publisher : Symposium Books Ltd
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781910744031

Get Book

Comparing Post-Socialist Transformations by Maia Chankseliani,Iveta Silova Pdf

This volume revisits the book edited by David Phillips and Michael Kaser in 1992, entitled Education and Economic Change in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (https://doi.org/10.15730/books.42). Two and a half decades later, this volume reflects on how post-socialist countries have engaged with what Phillips & Kaser called ‘the flush of educational freedom’. Spanning diverse geopolitical settings that range from Southeast and Central Europe to the Caucasus and Central Asia, the chapters in this volume offer analyses of education policies and practices that the countries in this region have pursued since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. This book explores three interrelated questions. First, it seeks to capture complex reconfigurations of education purposes during post-socialist transformations, noting the emergence of neoliberal education imaginaries in post-socialist spaces and their effects on policy discussions about education quality and equity across the region. Second, it examines the ongoing tensions inherent in post-socialist transformations, suggesting that beneath the surface of dominant neoliberal narratives there are always powerful countercurrents – ranging from the persisting socialist legacies to other alternative conceptualizations of education futures – highlighting the diverse trajectories of post-socialist education transformations. And finally, the book engages with the question of ‘comparison’, prompting both the contributing authors and readers to reflect on how research on post-socialist education transformations can contribute to rethinking comparative methods in education across space and time.

Author : Magda Nutsa Kobakhidze
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319959153

Get Book

Teachers as Tutors: Shadow Education Market Dynamics in Georgia by Magda Nutsa Kobakhidze Pdf

The so-called shadow education system of private supplementary tutoring has become a global phenomenon but has different features in different settings. This book explores the ways in which teacher-tutors’ beliefs, social norms, ideals about professionalism, and community values shape their economic decisions in the informal shadow education marketplace. Through theoretical lenses of economic sociology and anthropology, this study uncovers strong social and moral embeddedness of the shadow education market in social relationships, cultural norms and moralities in post-Soviet Georgia. The book questions some of the basic assumptions that the predominant neoliberal discourse promotes worldwide. The book is based on Kobakhidze’s PhD dissertation, which won the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Gail P. Kelly Outstanding Dissertation Award. “[A] theoretically innovative and substantively enlightening account of shadow schooling in Georgia... A landmark achievement.” Roger Dale, University of Bristol “... an important and timely topic ... addressed with exceptional thoroughness. It constitutes a solid piece of academic work and clearly makes a significant contribution to the field of shadow education.”Heidi Biseth, University College of Southeast Norway, Chair of Gail P. Kelly Award Committee in 2017 “...through robust critical analysis, Kobakhidze invites a humanistic re-visioning of economy and society.“ Ora Kwo, The University of Hong Kong

Author : Kenneth King
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030297909

Get Book

Education, Skills and International Cooperation by Kenneth King Pdf

This book highlights some of Kenneth King’s diverse contributions to international and comparative education, African studies and development studies over more than four decades. From his pioneering work on the first educational commissions to Africa, through his research on skills training in the informal sector, and on to his critical analysis of education analysis in development agencies, this book makes influential materials available in one place. Appropriately, it illustrates his career-long connections with Kenya, but also his more recent engagement with Japan, China and India. It is the first CERC volume to pay significant attention to the policies and politics of skills development. Kenneth King is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Edinburgh. He was based in and directed its Centre of African Studies for many years, and lectured on international perspectives in education and training in its School of Education. His research interests have addressed the politics and planning of skills development, including in the informal sector of the economy, aid policies towards education of both Western and Asian donors, and higher education cooperation. He founded NORRAG, the network for international policies and cooperation in education and training, in 1986, and edited NORRAG News until 2016. He was President of the British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE) from 2014-2016, and was one of the founding members of the UK Forum on International Education and Training (UKFIET).

Author : Ben Eklof,Larry Eugene Holmes,Vera Kaplan
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 0714657050

Get Book

Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia by Ben Eklof,Larry Eugene Holmes,Vera Kaplan Pdf

A collection of essays which examine the reform of the educational system in post Soviet Russia in historical and comparative perspective.

Author : Mark Bray,Chad Lykins
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789290926597

Get Book

Shadow Education by Mark Bray,Chad Lykins Pdf

In all parts of Asia, households devote considerable expenditures to private supplementary tutoring. This tutoring may contribute to students' achievement, but it also maintains and exacerbates social inequalities, diverts resources from other uses, and can contribute to inefficiencies in education systems. Such tutoring is widely called shadow education, because it mimics school systems. As the curriculum in the school system changes, so does the shadow. This study documents the scale and nature of shadow education in different parts of the region. Shadow education has been a major phenomenon in East Asia and it has far-reaching economic and social implications.

Author : Erwin H. Epstein
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319331867

Get Book

Crafting a Global Field by Erwin H. Epstein Pdf

The Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) is the oldest and largest body of its kind, and is a leader among the 44 members of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES). This book celebrates the CIES' 60th anniversary. The Society grew out of a series of conferences in the mid-1950s. Those conferences were attended by a small group of scholars in the USA who were keen to elucidate and expand their field. Now the Society has over 2,500 individual and about 900 institutional members (mainly libraries) around the world. The book explains how the Society was constructed and internationalized. It analyzes its development trajectory, its major structural components, and the programs and curricula that it has inspired and nourished. The significance of the book is not restricted to the CIES. It will certainly interest counterparts in other WCCES constituent societies and scholars from all fields who are concerned with institutional structures and their evolution.

Author : Allen Sinel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0674424875

Get Book

The Classroom and the Chancellery by Allen Sinel Pdf

The efforts of Dmitry Tolstoi's ministry resulted in comprehensive reforms that shaped the Russian school system until early in the twentieth century. Beginning with the historical, political, biographical, and administrative contexts for Tolstoi's reforms, Sinel then provides a detailed examination of Tolstoi's transformation of Russian education at all levels, particularly the secondary level, which was the cornerstone of his program.

Author : Eija Kimonen,Raimo Nevalainen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789004517790

Get Book

Students Learning in Communities by Eija Kimonen,Raimo Nevalainen Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive picture of community-based learning in education and demonstrates how teachers can make learning more functional and holistic so that students can work in new situations within their complex worlds. School-specific descriptions reveal how teachers and students implemented community-based projects at different times.

Author : Collective of authors
Publisher : MAC Prague consulting s.r.o.
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788090544215

Get Book

Proceedings of IAC-ETeL 2013 by Collective of authors Pdf

Author : Bobo Lo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1396883921

Get Book

21st Century Myth --: Authoritarian Modernization in Russia and China by Bobo Lo Pdf

Author : Thomas D. Curran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124094868

Get Book

Educational Reform in Republican China by Thomas D. Curran Pdf

This study examines the history of modern education in Republican China and analyzes its interaction with China's traditional educational heritage. In the first decade of the 20th century, the Chinese government introduced a new, national system of education, hoping that doing so would produce for China the human resources it needed to save itself from foreign encroachment. The new structure, however, was designed in accordance to foreign models that were hardly suited to conditions in China, and it had to compete with a strong indigenous educational tradition that was intimately associated with important features of Chinese social structure. Ultimately, when evaluated in the reformers' own hopes and expectations the new schools were a failure. Often referred to as the foreign eight-legged essay, they contributed to the destruction of a system of schooling that had helped to integrate traditional Chinese society by providing, at minimum, an avenue for upward mobility that most people considered fair and an introduction to an intellectual and literary heritage that all Chinese could claim as their own. considered alien, and a new set of neither institutions that produced the skilled manpower that the reformers sought nor the channel for upward mobility that elite aspirants wanted. By reforming the schools, instead of saving China, the reformers contributed to the disintegration for which the Republican Period is aptly remembered.

Author : Hong-Biao Yin,John Chi-Kin Lee
Publisher : Nova Science Pub Incorporated
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1614709971

Get Book

Curriculum Reform in China by Hong-Biao Yin,John Chi-Kin Lee Pdf

Curriculum reform has played a central role in the educational changes in contemporary China. The government of the People's Republic of China, being at the center of the centralized educational administration system, assumes the responsibility for designing and organizing the systemic reform initiatives. This is especially the case for what has been happening since the end of 1990s. At the turn of the new millennium, the Chinese government initiated the new round of national curriculum reform (NCR) for basic education which is also the eighth round of nation-wide curriculum reform since the founding of the Peoples' Republic of China. This book will give insightful information on the state of Educational programs in China's immediate future and written by many educators in China's learning system