The Challenge of Eastern Asian Education - Implications for America

Provides specific examples of Asian educational practice that may have relevance to the United States.

About the author

William K. Cummings is Professor and Director, Comparative and Global Studies in Education, State University of New York, Buffalo. Philip G. Altbach is Professor and Director, Center for International Higher Education, Boston College. He has edited several books, including Emergent Issues in Education: Comparative Perspectives (with Robert F. Arnove and Gail P. Kelly) and The Racial Crisis in American Higher Education (with Kofi Lomotey), and has authored The Knowledge Context: Comparative Perspectives on the Distribution of Knowledge, all published by SUNY Press.

Product details

• Assisted by: Philip G Altbach (Editor), Philip G. Altbach (Editor), William K Cummings (Editor), William K. Cummings (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.03.1997
• EAN: 9780791432839
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-3283-9
• No. of pages: 340
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 671 g
• Series: Frontiers in Education; Suny Series, Frontiers in Educ; Frontiers in Education
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Geschichte der Pädagogik, EDUCATION / History, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, Education / Teaching, EDUCATION / Multicultural Education