ABSTRACT
Looking at education in other countries and in other cultures can change our ideas about how education works and what education ultimately is for. In this chapter you will learn about:
• education in the United States of America (USA) and in the Pacific Rim countries of Japan, China and South Korea
• the global economy and why western governments are so interested in education in the Pacific Rim
• importing methods from other educational systems • what we can learn from cultures with a different world view.
