This book looks beyond the articulated goals and accomplishments of the modernization of higher education in China. It delves into the grass roots reality and identifies the true achievements, the unintended outcomes and the major obstacles that...
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This book looks beyond the articulated goals and accomplishments of the modernization of higher education in China. It delves into the grass roots reality and identifies the true achievements, the unintended outcomes and the major obstacles that still have to be overcome
Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-484) and index
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Contents ; Acknowledgements ; About the Contributors ; Abbreviations ; PART 1: THE SCOPE OF REFORM ; 1. Editors' Introduction / Michael Agelasto and Bob Adamson; 2. Reforms in the Administration and Financing of Higher Education / Cheng Kai-ming ; PART 2: ENHANCING SCHOLARSHIP ; 3. The Strategic Role of Faculty Development and Management / Cao Xiaonan ; 4. Chinese Scholars and the World Community / Wenhui Zhong; 5. Returns to EducationThe US/PRC Visiting Scholars Programme -- 1978-88 / Michele Shoresman ; 6. Modernizing Science Through Educating the Elite / Cong Cao
PART 3: MODERNIZATION AND THE CURRICULUM 7. Educational Utilitarianism: Where Goes Higher Education? / Liu Yingkai ; 8. Modernizing English Language Teacher Education / Bob Adamson ; 9. Agricultural Universities: Engines of Rural Development? / Greg Kulander ; 10. Higher Adult Education: Redefining Its Roles / Xiao Jin; PART 4: MARKETIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION ; 11. Stratification Trends in Technical-Professional Higher Education / Vilma Seeberg ; 12. Changing Conceptions of Equity and Student Financial Support Policies / Zhang Minxuan
13. Graduate Employment: From Manpower Planning to the Market Economy / Michael Agelasto 14. Privatization or Quasi-Marketization? / Mok Ka-ho and David Chan ; PART 5: WOMEN IN CHINESE HIGHER EDUCATION ; 15. Mixed Blessings: Modernizing the Education of Women / Carol C. Fan ; 16. Chinese Educational Reforms and Feminist Praxis: On Ideals, Process and Paradigm / Maria Jaschok ; 17. Gender Differences in Taiwan's AcademeImplications for the PRC / Chuing Prudence Chou and Flora Chia-I Chang ; PART 6: VALUES AND ASPIRATIONS
18. Is Lei Feng Finally Dead? The Search for Values in a Time of Reform and Transition / Gay Garland Reed 19. The Limits of Political Loosening: CCP Restraints on Student Behaviour in the Spring of 1989 / Teresa Wright ; PART 7: CONCLUSIONS ; 20. Editors' ConclusionThe State of Chinese Higher Education Today / Michael Agelasto and Bob Adamson ; Appendix: Executive Summary of China: Higher Education Reform. A World Bank Country Study ; Glossary ; Select Bibliography; Index
