ABSTRACT
This chapter 1 tries to address the following key questions: how are educational policies and practices from developed nations which possess highly-functional education systems transferred to developing country settings suffering from dysfunctions? How effective are these transfers of technology? And, what are the issues and challenges that arise from these transfers? These questions will be answered through four sections in this article. The fi rst section provides a succinct description of Singapore – a developed nation – and the Philippines – a developing nation. Particular emphasis will be placed on how each of these nations manages their economy and their education systems. The second section succinctly describes the history and theories behind the transfer of technology through international educational development. The third section elaborates on this technology transfer by focusing on the experience of the Leaders and Educators in Asia Programme (LEAP). LEAP is the main vehicle used to transport aspects of the world-renowned Singapore education system to be borrowed by the struggling educational context of the Philippines. The fourth and fi nal section undertakes a critical refl ection of the experiences of LEAP as an attempt to reproduce reform.
