Yan, Yifei (2018) Policy response to globalization: A comparison between China's and India's primary education. Asian Education Review, 2 (1), 76-102.
Abstract
How is China’s and India’s primary education influenced by
globalization and what exactly are their policy responses? This question
is important not only because globalization is perceived to have profound
influences on education policies at almost all levels in all countries, but such
manifestation also remains less scrutinized in two of the largest primary
education sectors in the world. This paper intends to fill this gap with a
comparative case study that is informed by Johnson’s (2006) framework on
the historical and political forces that shape education policy trajectories.
Responses from the Chinese and Indian sides are critically analyzed in
terms of both universalization of primary education as a policy goal,
and decentralization as a policy instrument. The results show that while
convergence is often observed on policy rhetoric and general policy objectives,
it is less so when it comes to structures and processes, as the role of national
government in the two countries remains critical in “buying” policies from the
global “market” based on their own terms and conditions. Yet to reach towards
the“politics of gelling” that involves a wider set of interest groups, subtle yet
nonetheless critical distinctions should be made between such role assertion on
one hand and excessive control on the other.
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