Higher Education Access in the Asia Pacific

Privilege or Human Right?
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-58669-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 166 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3392 g

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

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buasuwan, Prompilai

Collins, Christopher S.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Hochschuldidaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Vergleichende und Empirische Bildungsforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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.