Education as a Political Tool in Asia

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ISBN: 9780415452595 | 0415452597
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/18/2008

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

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Foreword
Introduction
Education, identity and the politics of modern state formation in Asia a comparative and historical perspective
The Inescapability of Politics? Nationalism, democratization and social order in Japanese education
The Opportunity of China? Education, patriotic values and the Chinese state
Education, Politics and the State in Hong Kong
"Creating good citizens, or a competitive workforce, or just plain political socialisation?: tensions in the aims of education in Singapore'
"Reverse! Now play fas forward": Education and the Politics of Change in Malaysia
Doi moi, Education and Identity Formation in Contemporary Vietnam
Globalization and the Fundamentalisation of Curricula; lessons from India
Education dilemmas in Pakistan the current curriculum reform
Non Piu Andrai: Bullets, Burqas, Books'Education Policy and its Discontents in Communist and Taleban Afghanistan
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