The Political Economy of Educational Reforms and Capacity Development in Southeast Asia - Cases of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)

Yasushi Hirosato and Yuto Kitamura Developing countries, including Southeast Asian countries, face an enormous challenge in ensuring equitable access to quality education in the context of deepening globalization and increasing international competition. They must simultaneously meet the goals of Education for All (EFA) at the basic education level and of developing a more sophisticated workforce required by the knowledge-based economy at the post-basic, especially tertiary, education level. To meet this challenge, developing countries need to reform/renovate their education systems and service deliveries as an integral part of national development. However, most of them have not yet fully developed the individual, institutional, and system capacities in undertaking necessary education reforms, especially under decentralization and privatization requiring new roles at various (central and local, or public and private) levels of administration and stakeholders. Provided that an ultimate vision of educational development and cooperation in the twenty-first century would be to develop indigenous capacity in engineering education reforms, this book analyzes the overall education reform context and capacity, including the status of sector program support using the sector-wide approach (SWAp)/program-based approach (PBA) in developing countries. We also address how different stakeholders have been interacting in order to promote equitable access to quality education, particularly from the perspectives of capacity development under the system of decentralization.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 13
Release date:	November 2010
First published:	2009
Editors:	Yasushi Hirosato • Yuto Kitamura
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	326
Edition:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009
ISBN-13:	978-90-481-8116-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Promotions
LSN:	90-481-8116-X
Barcode:	9789048181162

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