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This chapter outlines some of the major tensions that are surrounding education in the USA and analyses the conservative social movements that are impacting educational policy and practice. The four major parties of this new conservative alliance are the neo-liberals, the neo-conservatives, the Authoritarian Populists and the Professional New Middle Class. Each has its own relatively autonomous history and dynamics, but together, Apple suggests, they can overcome their internal contradictions and succeed in radically transforming education policy and practice.

This chapter looks at Japan’s educational system and the educational reforms that have taken place in the 1980s and 1990s as Japan tries to address issues and challenges that arise as a result of globalisation. The education system that has emerged is one that isn’t as competitive, is more humane for Japanese pupils, is based on the principle of learning for life, and is anticipative of Japan’s future needs in terms of information technology and internationalisation.

This chapter looks at changes in formal education in the South Pacific with specific reference to the impact of development and change in Tonga. Key issues covered include aims and objectives of education; curriculum development; access and equity; assessment, examination and educational achievement; and cultural and social impacts. The effect of globalisation on education and change in the Pacific Rim is discussed. With education becoming a vehicle to promote economic growth, the author points out the importance of keeping a balance between education for cultural development and education for economic development.

This book covers a wide range of topics on educational issues of importance to Pacific Rim countries. The chapters of this edited collection are: Introduction: education issues in the Pacific Rim / Keith Sullivan; We can change tomorrow by what we do today: aboriginal teacher education in Canada / Lynn McAlpine; Judging education: implications of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms / Jonathan L. Black-Branch; Under the new hegemonic alliance: conservatism and educational policy in the United States / Michael W. Apple; Training rural teachers in the Peruvian Andes / John Wolforth; Issues for education in the South Pacific: education and change in the Kingdom of Tonga / ‘Ana Koloto; The great New Zealand education experiment and the issue of teachers as professionals / Keith Sullivan; Maori education: looking back to the future / Kathie Irwin; From corporate to supply-side federalism?: narrowing the Australian education policy agenda, 1987-96 / John Knight and Merle Warry; The Little Asian Tigers: identities, differences and globalisation / Anthony Sweeting and Paul Morris; State policy on innovations for education: implications and tasks for Japan / Shin’ichi Suzuki; The metamorphosis of China’s higher education in the 1990s/ Bai, Limin.

This chapter examines Maori development in education from a Maori perspective. Background information on the Picot educational reform and restructuring process is included and an outline of the Ministry of Education’s Ten-Point Plan for Maori education, Nga Haeata Matauranga, is discussed. In an environment of self-determination, Irwin claims that Maori are becoming more pro-active in solving the current educational problems they’re facing and are launching creative and innovative programs which promote educational development