{"id":277,"date":"2011-10-11T06:40:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T13:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jukupedia\/?p=277"},"modified":"2011-10-14T06:21:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T13:21:57","slug":"an-era-of-hypereducation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jukupedia\/2011\/10\/11\/an-era-of-hypereducation\/","title":{"rendered":"An Era of Hypereducation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2010 I wrote an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asiapacificmemo.ca\/\">Asia Pacific Memo<\/a> that argued that &#8220;hypereducation&#8221; was <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jukupedia\/2011\/05\/23\/apm-on-hypereducation\/\" target=\"_self\">the way of the future<\/a>. In this Memo, I was primarily referring to contemporary education in South Korea as a hypereducation system, but also predicting that China was heading in this direction.<\/p>\n<p>What do I mean by hypereducation?<\/p>\n<p>Here are some aspects that define hypereducation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>private investment that approaches or surpasses public investment in education even when this public investment is substantial<\/li>\n<li>a strong, collectively-agreed upon belief in the importance of education\/educational credentials for intergenerational social mobility<\/li>\n<li>a highly institutionalized supplementary education sector that goes beyond immediate and short-term concerns with remedial efforts or exam preparation<\/li>\n<li>a broad lack of trust in conventional schools (including private schools) that flies in the face of empirical evidence that suggests a high level of achievement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;\">What societies have entered this era of hypereducation? In East Asia: South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. If you agree with my Asia Pacific Memo argument, then China is not far behind? Elsewhere? The island of Manhattan, clearly. I still know too little about non-Asian cases like Brazil, Egypt, Greece, Portugal and Turkey to be able to judge whether hypereducation is also developing in these countries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are global trends leading us toward an era of hypereducation? Privatization seems to be a near-universal phenomenon and it is encouraging competition and competitiveness in an era of uncertainty. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jukupedia\/2011\/10\/11\/an-era-of-hypereducation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6444,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2710,233,263498,7096,247658,9022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-education","category-hypereducation","category-japan","category-juku-in-japan","category-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jukupedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jukupedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jukupedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jukupedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jukupedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jukupedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jukupedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jukupedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jukupedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jukupedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}