Table Of ContentHIGHER EDUCATION
ACCESS IN THE
ASIA PACIFIC
Privilege or
Human Right?
Edited by
Christopher S. Collins
Prompilai Buasuwan
Higher Education Access in the Asia Pacific
Christopher S. Collins · Prompilai Buasuwan
Editors
Higher Education
Access in the Asia
Pacific
Privilege or Human Right?
Editors
Christopher S. Collins Prompilai Buasuwan
Azusa Pacific University Faculty of Education
Azusa, CA, USA Kasetsart University
Bangkok, Thailand
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ontents
1 Introduction: Higher Education as a Human Right 1
Christopher S. Collins
2 Education as a Praxis of Soul Consciousness: Insinuations
of Liberation Pedagogies in Higher Education and
Human Rights Discourse 11
Jeffrey Tangonan Acido
3 Higher Education as a Symbol of Equal Rights in
South Korea 23
Seonja Cha
4 Democratization of Access and Quality in Post-conflict
Timor Leste 41
Khoo Ying Hooi
5 Higher Education as a Human Right in North Korea 55
River Byun and Robert J. Bethke
6 History, Motives, and Achievement: A Critical Analysis
of Chinese College Student Financial Aid Policy 77
Huaming Fang and Mengting Cao
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7 Higher Education in the Era of Post-massification with
Extremely Low Fertility: A Case of Taiwan 93
Chih-Yuan Weng
8 Political/Moral Dispositions and Bonus Points: An
Examination of Access to Vietnamese Higher Education 115
Tu Thanh Le
9 Higher Education Competences and HR: Human
Resources or Human Rights in Korean University
Curriculum 139
Hyo-sung Lee
10 The Complexities and Intersectionality of Human Rights
Issues in Asia-Pacific Higher Education 155
Prompilai Buasuswan
Index 165
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ditors and ontributors
About the Editors
Christopher S. Collins Ph.D. Christopher S. Collins, Ph.D. is
Associate Professor of Higher Education at Azusa Pacific University. His
research interests include the role of higher education related to poverty
reduction, knowledge extension, public good, and social rates of return.
He has published in numerous journals, including the Journal of Higher
Education and the Review of Higher Education.
Prompilai Buasuwan Prompilai Buasuwan is Head of the Department
of Education and Associate Professor in the Program of Educational
Administration at Kasetsart University, Thailand. Her main research
interests include quality of education, university and community engage-
ment, internationalization of education, and educational policy analysis
and evaluation.
Contributors
Dr. Jeffrey Tangonan Acido is a lecturer at the College of Education
at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and Regent Emeritus for the
University of Hawai’i System. He has also taught in the Department of
Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures at UH-Manoa. He is interested
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in the fields of Liberation and Critical Pedagogy and youth leadership
development among working class, immigrant, and indigenous com-
munities. He is committed to decolonizing pedagogies and creating
and uplifting pedagogies of resistance and affirmation, especially among
oppressed communities. He envisions education to be de-corporatized
and hopes to create a center for popular education and ancestral wis-
dom. An educational center modeled after the revolutionary ideas of
Paulo Freire and the folk education of Myles Horton in the Highlander
School. He dreams of education not merely as an element of workforce
development but as a vessel for reflective praxis.
Rob Bethke works as a Director of Communications at Fuller
Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California where he received an
M.A. in Theology. He also earned an M.S. in Leadership and Ethics
from John Brown University. He is currently working toward a Ph.D. in
Higher Education at Azusa Pacific University with research interests in
development, global justice, global citizenship, and international higher
education issues. His professional background includes 15 years of film
production and international justice advocacy, with a focus on human
rights in North Korea.
River Byun is an equity scholar and educational researcher based in the
USA, who cares deeply for the human flourishing of all people in the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Mengting Cao is a Ph.D. candidate in the College of Education,
Zhejiang University, China. She graduated her Bachelor’s degree in
preschool education from Jiangxi Normal University and a Master’s
degree in comparative education from Zhejiang Normal University.
She was interested in preschool education assistance programs to Africa
and participated in a key National Education Science research project
“Internationalization of Higher Education in Africa” in Master’s period.
Currently, her research mainly focuses on school-enterprise cooperation
mechanism in Vocational Education, and participated in vocational edu-
cation supervision in 2016 as an educational inspector for Zhejiang pro-
vincial government.
Seonja Cha is a Professor of Law School at Chonnam National
University in Korea. At the same time, she is the executive director of
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Gender Equality Center at Chonnam National University. She studied at
Georg August University in Goettingen of Germany and got her Master.
After that, she took her Ph.D. at University Bremen in Germany. Now,
she gives a lecture on Human Right. Her research field is specialized in
the equal right. Especially, she focuses on the concrete contents of equal
right in higher education.
Mr. Huaming Fang is a Ph.D. candidate in the College of Education,
Zhejiang University, China. He once worked at Zhejiang International
Studies University as a counselor of student affairs, and later as adminis-
trative staff. He led and participated in several research projects funded
by Zhejiang International Studies University, the National Social
Science Foundation of China, and the Zhejiang Provincial Department
of Education. His research and publications cover various topics with a
main focus on quality assurance of the American public research univer-
sity. He is interested in educational policy, as well as international and
comparative higher education. Currently, he is working on the Belt and
Road Initiative and cross-border higher education.
Dr. Ying Hooi Khoo is Senior Lecturer at the Department of
International and Strategic Studies, University of Malaya. Her research
interests include non-state actors, transnational activism, protest
research, human rights and democratization with a regional focus
on Southeast Asia, especially Malaysia. She is the author of “Seeds of
Dissent” (2015), a compilation of her commentaries on academic free-
dom, human rights, protests and political change in Malaysia. Ying Hooi
is the Deputy Editor of Malaysian Journal of International Relations
(MJIR), and she is the Academic Advisor in the Democracy Academy
of Malaysia, also convener and trainer for the module “Issues in World
Politics” for the Timor-Leste Institute of Diplomatic Studies (IDS).
Prior to her academic career, she worked at several corporate sectors and
the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) as the Head
of International Issues and Cooperation.
Ms. Tu Thanh Le is working as a researcher in Center for Educational
Accreditation (CEA), Vietnam National University—Ho Chi Minh City
and has been responsible for activities related to quality assessment and
accreditation at institution level. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree
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in English linguistics and Literature from University of Social Sciences
and Humanities in 2009. After received her Master’s degree in Applied
Linguistics from Curtin University, she worked for Department of
Testing & Quality Assurance of University of Economics and Finance in
5 years, 2010–2014. From the beginning of 2015, she works in CEA
and is interested in research about educational accreditation.
Dr. Hyo-sung Lee is a researcher at Institute of Liberal Education,
Chonnam National University, South Korea. He got his Ph.D. from
Chonnam National University, South Korea. He is majoring in curric-
ulum, particularly interested in university education-related theory and
development of curriculum. He has been managing and evaluating the
liberal education curriculum in the university.
Prof. Chih-Yuan Weng is Assistant Professor in the Department of
Sociology at Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan. His research inter-
ests pertain to health disparities, stress process, aging and life course,
and quantitative methods. His projects in progress examine (1) health
implications of composition profiles and growth trajectories of household
debt, (2) the temporal trends of ethnic disparities in self-rated health
among Taiwanese adults, and (3) how skin tone affect experiences of
perceived discrimination among African Americans.
