Changing Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. The Context and Imperatives for Paradigmatic Change in Education

   1. Introduction: Challenges in the Leadership of Innovation and Development in Education in a Globalizing Asia Pacific

      • Peter D. Hershock, Mark Mason, John N. Hawkins

      Pages 1-26

   2. Globalization and Education: Characteristics, Dynamics, Implications

      • Deane Neubauer

      Pages 29-62

   3. Rethinking Educational Aims in an Era of Globalization

      • Fazal Rizvi

      Pages 63-91

   4. Multiculturalism, Shared Values, and an Ethical Response to Globalization

      • Mark Mason

      Pages 93-113

   5. Education and Alleviating Poverty: Educating for Equity and Diversity

      • Peter D. Hershock

      Pages 115-134

3. Outcomes and Opportunities for Change: Education in a Renewing Asia

   1. The Intractable Dominant Educational Paradigm

      • John N. Hawkins

      Pages 137-162

   2. Globalization and Paradigm Change in Higher Education: The Experience of China

      • Ma Wan-hua

      Pages 163-181

   3. Pulling Together amid Globalization: National Education in Singapore Schools

      • Jason Tan

      Pages 183-197

   4. Education in the Years to Come: What We Can Learn from Alternative Education

      • Joseph P. Farrell

      Pages 199-224

4. Leadership in Changing the Way Education Changes

   1. Leadership in the Context of Complex Global Interdependence: Emerging Realities for Educational Innovation

      • Peter D. Hershock

      Pages 227-247

   2. The Changing Role of Leadership (or A Changing Leadership for a Changing World)

      • Victor Ordonez

      Pages 249-272

   3. Interconnections Within and Without: The Double Duty of Creative Educational Leadership

      • Wang Hongyu

      Pages 273-296

   4. Unraveling Leadership: ‘Relational Humility’ and the Search for Ignorance

      • Vrinda Dalmiya

      Pages 297-322

5. Back Matter

   Pages 323-348

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This book responds to the growing unease of educators and n- educators alike about the inadequacy of most current educational systems and programs to sufficiently meet the demands of fast changing societies. These systems and programs evolved and were developed in and for societies that have long been transformed, and yet no parallel transformation has taken place in the education systems they spawned. In the last twenty years or so, other sectors of society – transportation, communication, banking, health services – have radically changed they way they operate, but education has continued essentially the same. There is no doubt: education must change. To those ready to accept this challenge, this book represents a welcome guide. To be sure, it is not a ‘how-to’ instruction manual, since the shape of change must be particular to the needs and situations of each setting, and societies are as varied as they are fast changing. Rather than provide specific directions, if provides a useful road map for the navigators of change, within which each can plot out their specific itineraries towards their goal. It illuminates the basic goal of education – the total and balanced development of individuals and, through them, societies – and depicts the main features, the imperatives, the demands, and the pitfalls of an ever more interdependent, globalized world in which this goal must be pursued. My work has exposed me to dozens of international conferences on various education themes, and several colleges of education worldwide.

• Diversity
• Education in Asia
• Educational Change
• Educational Leadership
• Globalization and Education
• education
• higher education

• The University of Hong Kong, China

  Mark Mason

• East-West Center, Hawaii

  Peter D. Hershock

• University of California, Los Angeles, USA

  John N. Hawkins

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