Euro-Asian Encounters on 21st-Century Competency-Based Curriculum Reforms: Cultural Views on Globalization and Localization

This book explores the issue of transnational curriculum knowledge (re)production through a geographically unique cultural comparative lens. It examines how global frameworks like the OECD's core competency definitions are rooted and borrowed, resisted, and/or re-contextualized in various European states and Asian countries with Christian and Confucian educational–cultural heritages. It highlights the roles of history, culture, religious attitudes, ideology, and state governance in nation-states' re-contextualization of global curriculum policies and practices. The book provides a global context to understand individual nation-states' curriculum reforms and school practices, and situates them within an international community for healthy dialogues and mutual sharing. It also offers a springboard for international curriculum studies beyond geopolitical nation-state constructs, shedding new light on each nation-states curriculum policies and practices and creating new collaboration spaces within similar and across disparate cultural–educational regions.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 247 pages
Publication date: 14 July 2022
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore

This book provides a unique cultural comparative lens to examine the issue of transnational curriculum knowledge (re)production, prompted by ongoing competency-based curriculum reforms on a global scale. It explores the origins and borrowing of global frameworks like the OECD's core competency definitions in various European states with a Christian, primarily Protestant educational and cultural heritage, and Asian countries with a Confucian educational and cultural heritage. It highlights the roles of history, culture, religious attitudes, ideology, and state governance in the re-contextualization of global curriculum policies and practices beyond a simplistic globalism/power and nationalism/resistance dynamic. By selecting two educational-cultural systems and wisdom—Christian-Protestant and Confucian—it offers a springboard for international curriculum studies beyond geopolitical nation-state constructs. It sheds new light on each nation-states curriculum policies and practices, creating new collaboration spaces within similar and disparate cultural-educational regions. With its wide geopolitical and educational-cultural scope, this book appeals to a global market and can be used in various undergraduate and graduate courses in comparative education, history of education, curriculum theory, and more.

Weight: 397g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789811630118
Edition number: 1st ed. 2021