Educational Decentralization Asian Experiences and Conceptual Contributions [Hardcover]

Decentralization and Education: Asian Experiences and Conceptual Contributions examines the specific ways in which decentralization policies have affected the structure and delivery of education in eleven Asian nations. Written by top scholars in the field, the case studies provide detailed and rich empirical evidence documenting the tensions as well as synchronisms between the ideas that form the basis of decentralization policy and the contexts into which they are introduced. The high quality of this collection of essays and the careful attention to local contexts for implementation will make this book a must read for academics, policy planners, practitioners, and students of Asia.

Decentralization and Education: Asian Experiences and Conceptual Contributions examines the specific ways in which decentralization policies have affected the structure and delivery of education in eleven Asian nations. Written by top scholars in the field, the case studies provide detailed and rich empirical evidence documenting the tensions as well as synchronisms between the ideas that form the basis of decentralization policy and the contexts into which they are introduced. The high quality of this collection of essays and the careful attention to local contexts for implementation will make this book a must read for academics, policy planners, practitioners, and students of Asia.

Introduction.- 1. E.M.Hanson: Strategies of Educational Decentralization: Key Questions and Core Issues.- 2. J.N.Hawkins: Walking on Three Legs: Centralization Decentralization and Recentralization in Chinese Education.- 3. J.Lai-ngok Wong: The Effect of Local Interpretation of Local Interpretation of Decentralization on School policy in Guangdong Province of China.- 4. J.Tan: Limited Decentralization in the Singapore Education System.- 5: M. Bray, Kwok-Chun Tang: Building and Diversifying Education Systems: Evolving Patterns and Contrasting Trends in Hong Kong and MaclӴ