Euro-Asian Encounters on 21st-Century Competency-Based Curriculum Reforms: Cultural Views on Globalization and Localization

Part I: Introduction.- Chapter 1: Euro-Asia Encounters on 21^st-Century Competency-Based Curriculum Reforms: A Historical and Cultural (Re)Turn.- Part II: The European Picture: Christian Protestant Ideals and Curriculum Reforms.- Chapter 2: The Transformation of Christian Missions to Educational Colonization, or Motives of Speaking and Listening in the One-sided Euro-American-Asian Dialogue.- Chapter 3: From Knowledge and Bildung toward Competences and Skills in Finnish Curriculum Policy? Some Theoretical, Historical, and Current Observations Related to Finland.- Chapter 4: Historical Trajectories of the Contract-School Model in Norway.- Chapter 5: Globalization and Localization in the Shaping of the Danish Public Education System: Recontextualization Processes in Four Historical Educational Reforms.- Chapter 6: Fixing the Future: Public Discourse on the Implementation of Education Standards in Austria.- Chapter 7: A Critical Review of the Competency-Based Curriculum in Spain.- Chapter 8: Competence-Based Curriculum Reforms in the Context of University Engineering Education in the Post-Soviet Lithuania - Hope or Disappointment?.- Part III: The East Asian Picture: Confucian Educational Cultures and Curriculum Reforms.- Chapter 9: Nationalism and Globalism as Epistemic Entanglements: China's Suyang Curriculum Reform as a Case Study.- Chapter 10: Unpacking the Global-Local Entanglements in Hong Kong's Curriculum Reform.- Chapter 11: Competency-Based Curriculum Reform and its Making of Korean Global Citizen.- Chapter 12: A Holistic Model of Competence: Curriculum Reforms for Preschool Education in Singapore.- Chapter 13: The Global Inside the National and the National Inside the Global: 'Zest for Living, ' the Chi, Toku and Tai Triad, and the 'Model' of Japanese Education.