Centralization and Decentralization: Educational Reforms and Changing Governance in Chinese Societies - CERC Studies in Comparative Education New edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index; First publ. by the Comparative Education Research Centre, Hong Kong. Table of Contents: 1. Centralization and Decentralization: Changing Governance in Education.- Education Reforms and Changing Education Systems.- 2. The Politics of Decentralization: A Case Study of School Management Reform in Hong Kong.- 3. Centralization and Decentralization in Educational Governance in Taiwan.- 4. Centralization and Decentralization in Educational Governance in Taiwan.- 5. Towards Centralization and Decentralization.in Educational Development in China: The Case of Shanghai.- 6. Women s Education in China s New Socialist Market Economy.- Changing Governance in Higher Education.- 7. Centralization and Decentralization: Changing Governance in Education.- 8. Centralization and Decentralization in Higher Education: A Comparative Study of Hong Kong and Taiwan.- 9. Universities for Knowledge Economies: Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland within Globalization and Decentralization.- 10. Progress and Paradoxes: New Developments in China s Higher Education.- Conclusion.- 11. Beyond Decentralization: Changing Roles of the State in Education.- Notes on the Authors."