Education as a political tool in Asia / edited by Marie Lall and Edward Vickers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Michael Apple -- Introduction / Marie Lall -- 1. Education, identity and the politics of modern state formation in Asia -- a comparative and historical perspective / Edward Vickers -- 2. The Inescapability of Politics? Nationalism, democratization and social order in Japanese education / Peter Cave -- 3. The Opportunity of China? Education, patriotic values and the Chinese state / Edward Vickers -- 4. Education, Politics and the State in Hong Kong / Paul Morris -- 5. Creating good citizens, or a competitive workforce, or just plain political socialisation?: tensions in the aims of education in Singapore / Christine Han -- 6. Reverse! Now play fas forward": Education and the Politics of Change in Malaysia / Elwyn Thomas -- 7. Doi moi, Education and Identity Formation in Contemporary Vietnam / Matthieu Salomon and Vu Doan Ket -- 8. Globalization and the Fundamentalisation of Curricula; lessons from India / Marie Lall -- 9. Education dilemmas in Pakistan -- the current curriculum reform / Marie Lall -- .10. Non Piu Andrai: Bullets, Burqas, Books--Education Policy and its Discontents in Communist and Taleban Afghanistan / Patrick Belton.