Chelsea M Robles

Education and Society in Bhutan

Tradition and Modernisation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the history of education in Bhutan and reveals that, as the country has modernised and become globally connected and further influenced by international and Western mores, tensions have emerged across the education sector. Filling a gap in the literature, this book is an invaluable resource for students and researchers intereste

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 218g
• ISBN-13: 9780367787295
• ISBN-10: 0367787296
• Artikelnr.: 61212593

Autorenporträt

Chelsea M. Robles is a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University, Japan. Her work focuses on education policy and practice.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The development of modern education in Bhutan
3. Competing ideas at the political and policy level
4. The translation of policy into the living and designed curriculum
5. At the juncture of change: Teachers as mediators of traditional and
modern knowledges in state education
6. Looking across three levels of Bhutan's education sector
7. Implications for present and future developments in education