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Educational Reforms in Russia and China at the Turn of the 21st Century

September 2, 2013

Return to the CERC Monograph Series.

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Nina Ye Borevskaya, V.P. Borisenkov, Xiaoman ZHU

2010, 115 pp.

ISBN 978-988-17852-5-1; 978-988-17852-4-4.

Published by Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC) in collaboration with the UNESCO

HK$100 (local), US$16 (overseas)

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“This important study of educational reform in Russia and China brings to the global research community in comparative education a detailed and thoughtful analysis of the parallel yet divergent educational policies and developments in the two societies over the past 25 years. The intent of the study is both academic and ameliorative scholars from both countries who contributed to the volume are interested in what can be learned from the experiences of the other, and in understanding more generally the common and divergent patterns of educational transition. Striking comparisons between the two societies come up in the dialogues on many related themes. Differences between the “shock therapy” approach to political change in Russia and the gradual change of the Chinese communist system, and their respective educational implications, constitute a central feature of the analysis in this volume.

Borevskaya’s carefully argued summary knits together many of the broad arguments that run through the volume as a whole, while at the same time bringing in nuances and questions that reveal an extraordinary grasp of historical context in the tensions she identifies among three core models in both societies: “an outdated purely state model, a market oriented educational model, and a culture oriented educational model which is congruent with the Chinese and Russian educational traditions, as well as with global tendencies toward humanization.”

Ruth Hayhoe, Comparative Education Review

Seminar

Seminar: Research, Academic Life and Solutions Career Development

January 29, 2013

HAYHOE

 

2:15-3:30pm
Wednesday 15 May 2013
Room 204 Runme Shaw, HKU Main Campus

Speaker: Ruth Hayhoe

 

In this roundtable-format sharing session, Ruth Hayhoe looks back at
her experiences of collaborations between academics and universities
in Canada and China, and sheds light on the paths to be taken for
continued and sustainable conversations between scholarly communi-
ties in the west and the east. She will draw upon the experience of
university partnerships across a number of disciplines and a fairly
lengthy period of time, as well as reflecting on implications for emerging
scholars. Her talk will also enlighten those who look forward to the next
year conference: “Transforming Canada-China Educational Cooperation:
Significant Legacies and Future Challenges” (Beijing, May 9-14, 2014) co-
organized by Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University
of Toronto, York University, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, and
Tsinghua University.

A paper for this talk can be downloaded here.

Ruth Hayhoe is President Emerita of the Hong Kong Institute of
Education and a professor of the Ontraio Institute for Studies in
Education at the University of Toronto. In 2009 she was given a Lifetime
Contribution Award by the Higher Education Special Interest Group of
the Comparative and International Education Society of the USA (CIES),
and in 2011 she was made an Honorary Fellow of the CIES. She is also an
Associate Members of CERC and has written many books, of which five
have been published by CERC.

Seminar

China’s Soft Power and Internationalisation in Africa

January 10, 2013

CERC-KK-Bjorn(small)

12:45-2:00pm
Tuesday 2 July 2013
204 Runme Shaw Building, HKU Main Campus

Speakers: Kenneth King, Bjorn Nordtveit, and Pravina King
Chair: Trey Menefee

This seminar is the first dissemination seminar for all those interested in new field research on China’s latest higher education cooperation with Africa. The 20+20 Project partners 20 African and Chinese universities in a wide-ranging cooperation of joint research, staff and student exchange, and short- and long-term training. This new research builds on the Kings and Nordtveit’s earlier work on China’s soft power and aid to education in Africa. It will present case material from Chinese universities linked through the 20+20 scheme to African universities from the Cape to Cairo. Both presentations raise implications and challenges for the internationalization of Hong Kong’s universities.

Trey Menefee will chair the seminar, which consists of two presentations:

China’s Higher Education Cooperation with Southern and Eastern Africa (Kenneth and Pravina King)
China’s 20+20 University Partnership with Africa (Bjorn Nordtveit)

Kenneth and Pravina King, University of Edinburgh Kenneth and Pravina King were given the Distinguished Africanist Award by the African Studies Association of the UK in 2012.

Kenneth King is Professor Emeritus at University of Edinburgh, where he was Director of the Centre of African Studies (CAS) for 20 years. He was a Distinguished Visiting Professor in HKU during 2006-7. He is author of China’s Aid &Soft Power in Africa: The Case of Education & Training (James Currey, May 2013) and editor of NORRAG News. Pravina was administrator of CAS for 15 years.

Bjorn Nordtveit, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Bjorn Nordtveit has twelve years of experience with UNESCO and the World Bank as a specialist in education, after which he served at the University of Hong Kong from 2006 to 2011, and at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 2011 to present. He will take up the editorial role of the Comparative Education Review (CER) from July 1, 2013.

China-Africa Research

December 18, 2012

China-Africa Educational Aid and Development Cooperation Papers by Kenneth King and Bjorn Nordtveit 

 

  • King, K. 2006b China and Africa: towards a new paradigm in human resource development? keynote paper at the Roundtable on Comparative Culture and Education in African and Asian Societies, on 26th May, HKU, Hong Kong; it was published in Chinese in Africa and Asia, the Journal of IWAAS, Institute of West Asian and African Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, in February 2007
  • King, K. 2006c China’s partnership discourse with Africa, Royal African Society (RAS) and South African Institute for International Affairs (SAIIA), China in Africa in the 21st Century: Preparing for the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, 16-17 October 2006, Johannesburg, published in special issue on Sino-African relations of International Politics Quarterly (Peking University, in Chinese).
  • King, K. 2007a, China’s aid to Africa: a view from China and Japan, lead paper to the JICA seminar on China’s Aid to Africa the Beijing Summit and its Follow-up, 29th January 2007, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Tokyo (being offered to the Journal for International Cooperation in Education (Hiroshima University).
Seminar

Seminar: The Chinese government’s overseas academic talent policy and mainland Chinese scholars in the United States

November 29, 2012

CERC-CREC-Seminar-Li-Mei

Speaker: Li Mei

This seminar will interrogate the concepts of brain drain, gain, circulation and knowledge diaspora and the shifting patterns of academic mobility between a rising power and a leading power.

The research on which the seminar is based examined the patterns and reasons for Chinese academic mobility to the US by targeting those staying in US universities. Through semi-structured interviews and questionnaires, the research explores why some Chinese academics have chosen to return while the others prefer to stay in the US. It also asks how they view the academic profession in the home and host institutions, and examines the collaboration and interaction with China’s domestic peers and colleagues.

The findings have implications for China’s strategy to get its overseas academics back. The study also notes the changes in Chinese academic systems when significant numbers of academics return.

Li Mei is an associate professor in East China Normal University, Shanghai. She earned her PhD from HKU in 2006. She was a visiting scholar at the University of California Los Angeles in 2011.

Her research interests focus on globalisation and internationalisation of Chinese higher education, higher education policy, and the academic profession in China. Her latest book is: The international markets for higher education: The global flow of Chinese students.

Announcement

CERC book receives award

July 30, 2012

CERC would like to extend congratulations to Ruth Hahoe, Jun Li, Jing Lin and Qiang Zha, the authors of our latest book in the Series “CERC Studies in Comparative Education”, entitled Portraits of 21st Century Chinese Universities: In the Move to Mass Higher Education. The book  has received the 2nd place in the 3rd Annual Comparative & International Education Society (CIES) Higher Education Special Interest Group (HESIG) Best Books for the academic year 2011-2012!