ASEM – the modern Silk Road: travelling ideas for education reforms and partnerships between Asia and Europe

Autor:	QUE ANH DANG
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Economic growth Higher education business.industry Lifelong learning Socialization Education General partnership Phenomenon Cultural diversity media_common.cataloged_instance Sociology European union South east asian business media_common
Zdroj:	University of Bristol-PURE
ISSN:	1360-0486 0305-0068
DOI:	10.1080/03050068.2012.740223
Popis:	Today the modern Silk Road between Asia and Europe is increasingly well-travelled in both directions by students, academics and policy makers. Over the last decade the European Union (EU) and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) have been making more attempts to shape this route by creating an educational partnership through an inter-regional forum for regional cooperation and policy development: the Asia–Europe Meeting (ASEM). Beside economic and diplomatic relations, education has been receiving increasing attention since the 2000s and has become an important and strategic act of cooperation by ASEM education ministers. Higher education and lifelong learning are the main topics for the multi-level dialogues and exchanges of ideas between the two regions. This paper describes the emergence of this new inter-regional educational phenomenon and examines its characteristics by analysing the case of the 10-year-old ASEM Lifelong Learning Initiative. Furthermore, the paper argues that ASEM educ...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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