Globalization and Marketization in Education: A Comparative Analysis of Hong Kong and SingaporeGlobalization has effected tremendous change to the character and functions of education worldwide. This unique book focuses on its impact upon Hong Kong and Singapore, and how these two East Asian Tigers have responded to the strong global tide of marketization in shaping and developing their education policies. The authors discuss the way in which increasingly prominent tides of marketization, privatization, corporatization and decentralization have influenced the governance and management of education in these two Asian economies. They aim to identify and examine the crucial socio-historical, socio-economic and socio-political factors for education reforms initiated in the two societies in recent years. |
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Page 20 - On the contrary, for the transformationalists, globalization is associated with new patterns of global stratification in which some states, societies and communities are becoming increasingly enmeshed in the global order while others are becoming increasingly marginalized.
Page 20 - They also assert that by comparison with the age of world empires the international economy has become considerably less global in its geographical embrace (Held, McGrew, Glodblatt and Parraton 1999; Smith, Solinger and Topik 1999).