Titre : | Higher education in East Asia and Singapore: rise of the confucian model |
Auteur(s) : | Simon MARGINSON |
Type de document : | Article |
Revue : | Higher Education (vol. 61 (5), 2011) |
Description : | p. 587-611 |
Langue(s) : | Anglais |
Résumé : | The paper reviews Asia-Pacific higher education and university research, focusing principally on the «Confucian» education nations Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong China, Taiwan, Singapore and Vietnam. Except for Vietnam, these systems exhibit a special dynamism--still playing out everywhere except Japan--and have created a distinctive model of higher education more effective in some respects than systems in North America, the English-speaking world and Europe. The Confucian Model is pluralizing global university power. It rests on four interdependent elements: (1) strong nation-state shaping of structures, funding and priorities; (2) a tendency to universal tertiary participation, partly financed by growing levels of household funding of tuition, sustained by a private duty to invest in education grounded in Confucian values; (3) «one chance» national examinations that mediate social competition and university hierarchy and focus family commitments to education; (4) accelerated public investment in research and «world-class' universities. The Model has downsides in social equity in participation, and potential state interference in executive autonomy and academic creativity. But together with economic growth amid low tax regimes, the Confucian Model enables these systems to move forward rapidly and simultaneously on all of mass tertiary participation, university quality, and research quantity and quality. [résumé revue] |
Sujet(s) : | , qualité de l'éducation, dépenses éducatives, droits de scolarité, éducation comparée, enseignement supérieur, fonds privés, HERITAGE CULTUREL, investissement, MODELE CULTUREL, philosophie de l'éducation, recherche, université |
Zone(s) géographique(s) : | Asie, Chine, Corée R, Hong Kong, Japon, Singapour, Taiwan Chine, Vietnam |
Document numérique (1)
http://www.cshe.unimelb.edu.au/people/marginson_docs/HigherEducationrevision_Marginson18September2010.pdf URL |