Globalization, changing demographics, and educational challenges in East Asia
By: edited by Emily Hannum, Hyunjoon Park, Yuko Goto Butler
Series: Research in sociology of education -- v. 17
Publisher: Emerald
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bingley, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781849509763
Subjects: Social aspects; Globalization; Education
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Editors' introduction : Emerging issues for educational research in East Asia / Emily Hannum, Hyunjoon Park and Yuko Goto Butler -- Part I: Globalization and educational response in Japan; title: The twisted unintended impacts of globalization on Japanese education  -- Takehiko Kariya and Jeremy Rappleye; title: Educational reform, academic intensity, and educational opportunity in Japan  -- Christopher Bjork -- Part II: Curricular innovation and the evolution of inequality in China; title: State-sponsored knowledge for the global age : global and traditional values in the Chinese language arts curriculum  -- Tanja Carmel Sargent and Xiao Yang; title: Changes in educational inequality in China, 1990-2005 : evidence from the population census data  -- Xiaogang Wu and Zhuoni Zhang -- Part III: Educational disparities and multicultural education policy in Korea; title: Educational inequality in South Korea : the widening socioeconomic gap in student achievement  -- Soo-yong Byun and Kyung-keun Kim; title: Policy note : diversification of the student population and multicultural educational policies in Korea  -- Youngdal Cho -- Part IV: Migration and education in the city-states of East Asia; title: The educational progress of mainland Chinese immigrant students in Hong Kong  -- Suet-ling Pong and Wing Kwong Tsang; title: Postsecondary educational expansion and social integration in Hong Kong  -- David Post; title: 'Downed' and stuck in Singapore : lower/middle class South Korean wild geese (kirogi) children in Singapore -- Jeehun Kim.