EDUCATION IN
CHINA AND ABROAD:
PERSPECTIVES FROM A
LIFETIME IN COMPARATIVE EDUCATION
By Gu Mingyuan
ISBN 962-8093-70-3. (2001, 260pp.)
HK$200 (local), US$32 (overseas) [add $5 /copy for air mail]
published by Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC)
Gu Mingyuan is one of China's most distinguished specialists in the field of comparative education. He is a long-serving of the China Comparative Education Society, and in 2000 he was elected President of the Chinese Education Society. Yet because most of his works have been published only in Chinese, they have been little-known internationally.
The book commences with an Introduction to Professor Gu's life and work by Ruth Hayhoe. She is a Past-President of the Comparative & International Education Society, and has made seminal contributions to the study of education in China from a comparative perspective. Since 1997 she has been Director of the Hong Kong Institute of Education.
The book commences with an Introduction to Professor Gu's life and work by Ruth Hayhoe. She is a Past-President of the
Comparative & International Education Society, and has made seminal contributions to the study of education in China from a comparative perspectives. Since 1997 she has been Director of the Hong Kong Institute of Education.
Contents
Foreword by Mark Bray
Introduction by Ruth Hayhoe
Part I: Comparative Education and Educational Reform in China
- Modern Production and Modern Education
- The Development of Higher Education in the Modern World, and Higher Education Reform in China
- The Key to Successful Education Reform: A Shift in Ideology
- Some Issues Concerning Teaching Reforms in Higher Institutions
- A Discussion on Higher Teacher-Education Reform
- Modernisation and Education in Cultural Traditions in China
- The Complete Shift in Educational Ideas: Twenty Years of Ideological Liberation
- A Complete and Accurate Understanding of Mao Zedong's Thought
Part II: Reflections on Education Abroad and At Home
- Basic Education Reforms in the USSR
- Educational Development in the USSR 1917-87: Lessons for China
- The Nature and Implications of Educational Development: A Global Analysis
- National Cultural Traditions and their Transformation
- Cultural Differences and Perspectives on the Roles of Teachers and Students in China and the United States
- Learning from Each Other: A Comparative Study of Education in China and Japan
- A Response to the Challenge of the New Era: Educational Reform for the 21st Century
Part III: Comparative Education Theory and Methods
- Issues in the Development of Comparative Education in China
- Comparative Education: Retrospect and Prospect
- Comparative Education in China: Name and Reality
- The Internationalisation of Education and Comparative Education
