{"product_id":"education-and-globalization-in-southeast-hock-guan-lee-9789814762908","title":"Education and Globalization in Southeast Asia: Issues and Challenges","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrior to the era of globalization, education in Southeast Asia was viewed in the context of the national state and it was deployed in the service of state and nation-building and national economic development. States monopolized education, and public-funded centralized education systems were established to teach literacy, transmit national cultures and promote social cohesion, and to produce literate workers. Globalization forces, however, dramatically impacted in varying ways and degrees the national education systems across the region. As states begun to see their citizens as resources to enhance the countries' competitiveness in the global market, it, among other things, led to the increasing demand for highly skilled and qualified human capital. The accompanying neoliberal ideology led to varying degrees of decentralization, privatization and internationalization of education, especially of higher education, in Southeast Asia.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The chapters in this volume focus on a number of issues and challenges confronting the education sector in Southeast Asia, including: (i) the contrasting language in education policy in Singapore and Malaysia; (ii) the introduction of an English-medium private education sector in Malaysia; (iii) the internationalization of Thai higher education; (iv) access and quality issues in the massification of Malaysian higher education; (v) secondary school quality and higher education participation in Indonesia; (vi) equity, access and retention in primary school education in Malaysia; and (vii) reforms in the primary and secondary education in Myanmar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hock Guan Lee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9814762903\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789814762908\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Iseas - Yusof Ishak Institute\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d","brand":"Hock Guan Lee","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48446720049407,"sku":"9789814762908","price":38.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8fe6ddf1-b493-4e8f-8f47-5b14d01caef8.jpg?v=1777226510","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/education-and-globalization-in-southeast-hock-guan-lee-9789814762908","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}