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Title Education as a political tool in Asia / edited by Marie Lall and Edward Vickers
Published London ; New York : Routledge, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 248 pages)
Series Routledge contemporary Asia series ; 11
Routledge contemporary Asia series ; 11.
Contents Education, identity and the politics of modern state formation in Asia : a comparative and historical perspective / Edward Vickers -- The inescapability of politics? : nationalism, democratization and social order in Japanese education / Peter Cave -- The opportunity of China? : education, patriotic values and the Chinese state / Edward Vickers -- Education, politics and the state in Hong Kong / Paul Morris -- Creating good citizens, or a competitive workforce, or just plain political socialisation? : tensions in the aims of education in Singapore / Christine Han -- 'Reverse! Now play fast forward' : education and the politics of change in Malaysia / Elwyn Thomas -- Đồi mới education and identity formation in contemporary Vietnam / Matthieu Salomon and Vu Doan Kêt -- Globalization and the fundamentalization of curricula : lessons from India / Marie Lall -- Education dilemnas in Pakistan : the current curriculum reform / Marie Lall -- Non più andrai : bullets, burqas, books : education policy and its discontents in communist Taleban Afghanistan / Patrick Belton
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Education -- Political aspects -- Asia
Education and state -- Asia
EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General.
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
Education and state
Education -- Political aspects
Asia
Form Electronic book
Author Lall, M. C. (Marie-Carine)
Vickers, Edward, 1971-
ISBN 9780203884669
0203884663
9780415452595
0415452597
9781134055135
1134055137