Higher Education in Market-Oriented Socialist Vietnam: New Players, Discourses, and Practices

Book Overview

1. Introduction and Foregrounding the Work: 'New' Players, 'New' Discourses, 'New' Practices, and 'New' Flavours2. A Review of the Reform Agenda for Higher Education in Vietnam3. 'Standing between the flows': Interactions among Neoliberalism, Socialism, and Confucianism in Vietnamese Higher Education4. A Review of University Research Development in Vietnam from 1986-20195. What Impacts Academics' Performance from the Learning Organisation Perspective? A Comparative Study6. Commentary - Modernity and Reflexivity in Vietnamese Higher Education: Situating the Role of the Ideological, Capacity Building, Learning Organisation, and Policy Reform7. Critiquing the Promotion of American-Biased "Liberal Arts Education" in Post- "Đổi mới" Vietnam8. Fighting the Stigma of "Second-Tier" Status: The Emergence of "Semi-Elite" Private Higher Education in Vietnam9. The Emergence of Mergers and Acquisitions in the Private Higher Education Sector in Vietnam10. Vietnam's Community College: The Question of Higher Education Decentralisation in Contemporary Vietnam11. The Construction, Deconstruction, and Reconstruction of Academic Freedom in Vietnamese Universities12. Impact of the New Southbound Policies on International Students in Taiwan: An Exploratory Study from Vietnamese Oversea Students13. Commentary - What Lies Ahead? Considering the Future of a "New" Vietnamese Higher Education14. English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in Vietnamese Universities: Policies of Encouragement and Pedagogies of Assumption15. Training English-medium Teachers: Theoretical and Implementational Issues16. Assessment Practices in Local and International EMI Programmes: Perspectives of Vietnamese Students17. Commentary - Who is EMI for? From Vietnam, Thinking about a Clash of Realities Behind the Policy, Practice, and Pedagogy in Japan18. Commentary - 'Expectations vs. Practicalities': Key Issues of EMI Policy and Pedagogical Implementation in Higher Education in Vietnam, with Reference from Brunei Darussalam19. Commentary - Postcards from Vietnam: Lessons for New Players in Higher Education20. Engaging (With) New Insights: Where to Start to Move Scholarship and the Current Debate Forward21. Afterword: Challenges Facing Vietnamese Higher Education

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303046914X
• ISBN13: 9783030469146
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 393 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"