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This edited volume offers empirical, evaluative, and philosophical perspectives on the question of higher education as a human right in the Asia Pacific. Throughout the region, higher education has grown rapidly in a variety of ways. Price, accessibility, mobility, and government funding are all key areas of interest, which likely shape the degree to which higher education may be viewed as a human right. Although enrollments continue to grow in many higher education systems, protests related to fees and other equity issues continue to grow. This volume will include scholarly perspectives from around the region for a more extensive understanding of higher education as a human right in the Asia Pacific.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Higher Education as a Human Right.- Chapter 2. Education as Praxis of Soul Consciousness: Insinuations of Liberation Pedagogy on Higher Education and Human Rights Discourse.- Chapter 3. Higher Education as a Symbol of Equal Right in South Korea.- Chapter 4. Democratization of Access and Quality of Higher Education in Post-Conflict Timor Leste.- Chapter 5. Higher Education as a Human Right in North Korea.- Chapter 6. History, Motives and Achievement: A Critical Analysis of Chinese College Student Financial Aid Policy.- Chapter 7. Unequal Access to Higher Education in the Era of Post-Massification with Extremely Low Fertility: A Case of Taiwan.- Chapter 8. Political/Moral Dispositions and Bonus points: An examination of Access to Vietnamese Higher Education.- Chapter 9. Higher Education Competences and HR: Human Resources or Human Rights in Korean University Curriculum.- Chapter 10. The Complexities and Intersectionality of Human Rights Issues in Asia Pacific Higher Education.
About the author
Christopher S. Collins is Associate Professor of Higher Education at Azusa Pacific University, USA. He studies the function of higher education in society from a global perspective and has recently published multiple edited volumes on the Asia Pacific region with Palgrave Macmillan.
Prompilai Buasuwan is Head of the Department of Education and Associate Professor in the Program of Educational Administration at Kasetsart University, Thailand. Her main research interests include quality of education, university and community engagement, internationalization of education, and educational policy analysis and evaluation.
Summary
Examines how societal values and public funding shape beliefs about the function of higher education in society
Explores how higher education compares to other human rights, and if there is a ranking of importance when it comes to rights
Includes cultural analyses from regions, nation-states, and economies that sort out the degree to which the hypotheses outlined by Neubauer, Shin, and Hawkins (2013) play a role in the conceptualization of higher education as a human right
