High School for All in East Asia

Comparing Experiences
Herausgeber: Aizawa, Shinichi; Rappleye, Jeremy; Kagawa, Mei

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Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on the universalization of upper secondary school, using it as a vantage point to understand the foundations of regional economic development. It covers each of the countries in East Asia, tracing how upper secondary schools supported the mass manufacturing labor force instrumental in economic expansion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9780367894627
• ISBN-10: 0367894629
• Artikelnr.: 58410617

Autorenporträt

Shinichi Aizawa is Associate Professor in the School of Contemporary Sociology at Chukyo University, Toyota, Japan. His research focuses on secondary education, social equality, development, and poverty from a comparative and historical sociological view. He was also Visiting Professor in Free University Berlin from 2016 to 2017. Mei Kagawa is Lecturer at the Faculty of Sociology, Daito Bunka University, Japan. Her research focuses on school to work transition, life course, and secondary education. Jeremy Rappleye is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Kyoto University, Japan. He was formerly a Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Special Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo (2009-2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Introduction, Theoretical Framework, and Preliminary Comparisons 1.
High School for All in East Asia, Shinichi Aizawa 2. Towards an original
contribution based on 'Asian Ediucation'?: A Review of Existing Theories of
Educational Expansion, Jeremy Rappleye 3. Upper Secondary Education in
Asia: A Quantitative Comparison with Western Countries, Hirofumi Taki Part
II Mass High School Societies: Processes of Expansion and Consequences 4.
Postwar Japan: Provision for the Expansion of High School Education in
Postwar Japan, Mei Kagawa 5. Private and Vocational High Schools within the
Expansion of Secondary Education: A Case Study of Korea, Mitsuharu Tanaka
6. Structural Analysis of the Expansion of Upper Secondary Education in
Taiwan: Private Schooling, Public Demand, and the Twelve-Year Basis
Education Policy, Yu-Fei (Sharon) Liu Part III Mass Education City-States:
Economic Centers and Secondary Expansion 7. Expansion Strategies of
Singapore's Secondary Education Amidst Processes of Economic Transformation
and Nation Building, Sim Choon Kiat 8. Foreseeing the New Educational Dream
Just before the Post-industrial Reality - Equality, Mobility and the
Expansion of Upper Secondary Schools in the 1980s, Yuk-Man Cheung,
Yuet-Man Li and Ching-Wai Ho Part IV Mass Education in Post-Communist
Societies 9. Expansion of Upper Secondary Education, 1980-2010, Jin Jiang
10. Challenges in Vietnamese Secondary Education During the Transitional
Economy Era, Miho Ito Part V Comparative Analyses and Conclusions 11.
Maintaining High School Education in the Low-Fertility Societies of Japan,
Taiwan, and South Korea, Mei Kagawa, Shinichi Aizawa and Mitsuharu Tanaka
12. Conclusion, Shinichi Aizawa and Jeremy Rappleye