Educational Import: Local Encounters with Global Forces in Mongolia [Paperback]

This book addresses students, practitioners and scholars in educational policy studies. The authors use Mongolia as a case to illustrate how global influences shape domestic developments in education, and how imported education reforms are locally modified, re-contextualized, or 'Mongolized'.PART I: INTRODUCTION From Socialism to Post-Socialism, From Second to Third-World, From Lender to Borrower PART II: GLOBAL FORCES IN POST-SOCIALIST MONGOLIA: FOUR CASE STUDIES OF LOCAL ENCOUNTERS Speaking the Language of the New Allies: Decentralizing Educational Management and Finance The Long Decade of Neglect (1990-2003): Stalemates in Nomadic Education The Fear of Falling Behind: The Policy Talk and the Enactment of Vouchers in Teacher Education The Mongolization of Student-Centered Teaching PART III: CONCLUSION Globalization in Education: Real or Imagined?

This remarkable book is a very significant contribution to the field of understanding change in education systems. It will be of considerable value to general readers as well as to those who are specifically concerned with Mongolia. The insights of the book are presented in a delightfully clear and stimulating style. - Mark Bray, President, World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES) and Chair Professor of Comparative Education, University of Hong Kong This is an extraordinary book. The authors have spent many years doing research on education in Mongolia, visiting many areas of this vast, land-locked country sharing its southern border with China. Stolpe studied there and is fluent in the Mongolian language. Consequently, they bring insights into schooling in Mongolia that would not ordinarily be accessible to expatriate scholars. The book contains an insightful analysis of the period of Soviet influence from the early twentieth century until 1990. Having grown up in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Stolpe is particularly knowledgeable with respect to the social, political and educalól