Mapping the Terrain of Education Reform

<p>This book envisions the formulation of critical perspectives on education reform using the Philippine experience recognizing the need to address relevant issues and challenges particularly in an increasingly globalized twenty-first century setting. A specific education reform project the Leaders and Educators in Asia Programme (LEAP) a joint effort between the Philippines’ Department of Education the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines the National Institute of Education-Singapore and Singapore’s Temasek Foundation serves as the analytical focus of how education reform as a globalized movement is implemented interpreted and made sense of by stakeholders involved in the reform project. This inquiry proposes to examine the problematique of education reform – from a Philippine perspective – by focusing on three analytical starting points: (1) describing the most relevant and urgent issues of education reform; (2) diagnosing the causes and consequences of reform failures; and (3) developing critical and contextualized perspectives on reform trajectories. <i>Mapping the Terrain of Education Reforms: Global trends and local responses in the Philippines</i> discusses the following:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Challenges against effective education reforms</li> <p> </p> <li>The oscillation between global and local imperatives</li> <p> </p> <li>The dissociation between policymakers and practitioners</li> <p> </p> <li>Education reform aid in the Philippines</li> </ul><p>This book will be of interest to researchers interested in education policy politics and reforms. It will also appeal to scholars examining Asian and particularly Southeast Asian educational systems.</p>