Old borrowings and new models of the university in East Asia

Abstract

This paper illustrates the transfer of university models from Europe and America to East Asia and will consider how international power relations in different times transform ideas about the university, in the process of global transfer. These relations will be identified with different forms of the state: imperial, colonial, welfare and market state.

Acknowledgement

This paper was first written for a lecture within the International Workshop hosted by the School of Education, University of Tokyo, held on Sunday 14 December 2003. The theme of the workshop was the ‘Redefinition of East Asian higher education in the current context: comparative sociology on cohesion and conflict between industry–labour policies and education policies in the process of modernisation’.