Description: Education & Modernization combines historical perspectives on Chinese education with a thematic analysis of a range of contemporary issues. China is a particularly interesting case to consider in relation to the many questions concerning the linksbetween education & modernization. Since 1911 its leaders have experimented broadly with at least two distinct forms of Western modernity, capitalist & socialist, as well as a wide range of culturally distinct educational patterns introduced fromthe West. In addition China has its own highly developed cultural & educational patterns which have had considerable influence throughout Southeast Asia. The essays included here take the reader from Confucius to beyond the Cultural Revolution, through current systems of formal & non-formal education, to a consideration of a range of issues in education & modernization including teachers & teaching, women & education, & management training.

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