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Internationalisation of the Curriculum in Vietnamese Higher Education: Mediating between 'Western' and Local Imaginaries
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Nguyen, Huong Thu; Phan, Huong Le Thanh; Tran, Ly Thi – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2023
Over the past decades, the Vietnamese government has strategically encouraged the import of the 'Western' curriculum through the so-called Advanced Programmes. It is envisioned that by learning from the more advanced systems such as Australia, Canada, the US, and the UK, Vietnamese universities will be able to overhaul their outdated curriculum…
Descriptors: International Education, Indigenous Knowledge, Western Civilization, Foreign Countries
The Knowledge-Based versus Student-Centred Debate on Quality Education: Controversy in China's Curriculum Reform
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Fu, Guopeng – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2020
Chinese education scholars Cesan Wang and Qiquan Zhong led a debate over knowledge centredness versus student centredness in China's ongoing pre-collegiate curriculum reform. The debate was considered the most influential academic event in the past 30 years in the field of education in China. Employing a Critical Discourse Analysis approach, this…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Educational Change, Criticism, Foreign Countries