Learning from Others:

 Special Issues on Comparative Education

Chuing Prudence Chou (2000)

Taipei: Wenjin Publisher

Abstract

     This book is divided into two parts. The first part discusses some special issues, such as the development of private education and consolidation of universities in China; the immigration policies in New Zealand’s changing ethnic relations;and the secondary teachers’ daily activities in Taiwan. The second part draws from five comparative studies on Canadian and American higher education, the academic reward system in Taiwan and the United States, gender differences in Taiwan and China’s academe, male and female faculty income in Taiwan, and Chinese university admissions during the the Cultural Revolution and Post-Cultural Revolution Periods. The question that ”What can we learn from comparative education research?” is served as the theme in this book and yet the answer seems beyond expectation…

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