Tabla de Contenidos:
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF TABLES
  • LIST OF FIGURES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION by William K. Cummings and Philip G. Altbach
  • I. BASIC EDUCATION
  • 1. The Roots of Japanese Educational Achievement: Helping Children Develop Bonds to School by CATHERINE C. LEWIS
  • 2. The East Asian Version of Whole-Class Teaching by HAROLD W. STEVENSON and SHINYING LEE
  • 3. Looking in the Chinese Mirror: Reflecting on Moral-Political Education in the United States by GAY GARLAND REED
  • 4. Chinese Teachers as Mirrors of Reform Possibilities by LYNN PAINE
  • II. SECONDARY EDUCATION
  • 5. Restructuring Japanese High Schools: Reforms for Diversity by NOBUO K. SHIMAHARA6. Disruption and Reconnection: Counseling Young Adolescents in Japanese Schools by GERALD K. LeTENDRE
  • 7. Human Capital Formation and School Expansion in Asia: Does a Unique Regional Model Exist? by DAVID P. BAKER and DONALD B. HOLSINGER
  • III. THE PRIVATE SECTOR
  • 8. Private Education in Eastern Asia by WILLIAM K. CUMMINGS
  • 9. Lessons from Japanese Cram Schools by NANCY UKAI RUSSELL
  • IV. LINKING EDUCATION TO SOCIETY
  • 10. Education and Work in Japan: Implications for Policy by SAM STERN11. Education Policies in Taiwan (China) and Hong Kong by KIN BING WU
  • 12. Improving School-Community Relations in Thailand by CHRISTOPHER W. WHEELER, JAMES GALLAGHER, MAUREEN McDONOUGH, and BENJALUG SOOKPOKAKIT-NAMFA
  • V. THE RELEVANCE OF ASIAN EDUCATION
  • 13. Differences that Make a Difference: Explaining Japan's Success by THOMAS P. ROHLEN
  • 14. Education and State Development: Lessons for the United States? by S. GOPINATHAN
  • Chapter 15Chapter 16
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX
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