High School for All in East Asia

Shinichi Aizawa is Associate Professor in the Department of Education at Sophia University, Japan.Mei Kagawa is Lecturer at the Faculty of Sociology, Daito Bunka University, Japan. Her research focuses on school to work transition, life course, and secondary education. Jeremy Rappleye is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Kyoto University, Japan. He was formerly a Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Special Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo (2009–2011).

• Part I Introduction, Theoretical Framework, and Preliminary Comparisons 1. High School for All in East Asia, Shinichi Aizawa 2. Towards an original contribution based on 'Asian Ediucation'?: A Review of Existing Theories of Educational Expansion, Jeremy Rappleye 3. Upper Secondary Education in Asia: A Quantitative Comparison with Western Countries, Hirofumi Taki Part II Mass High School Societies: Processes of Expansion and Consequences 4. Postwar Japan: Provision for the Expansion of High School Education in Postwar Japan, Mei Kagawa 5. Private and Vocational High Schools within the Expansion of Secondary Education: A Case Study of Korea, Mitsuharu Tanaka 6. Structural Analysis of the Expansion of Upper Secondary Education in Taiwan: Private Schooling, Public Demand, and the Twelve-Year Basis Education Policy, Yu-Fei (Sharon) Liu Part III Mass Education City-States: Economic Centers and Secondary Expansion 7. Expansion Strategies of Singapore's Secondary Education Amidst Processes of Economic Transformation and Nation Building, Sim Choon Kiat 8. Foreseeing the New Educational Dream Just before the Post-industrial Reality - Equality, Mobility and the Expansion of Upper Secondary Schools in the 1980s, Yuk-Man Cheung, Yuet-Man Li and Ching-Wai Ho Part IV Mass Education in Post-Communist Societies 9. Expansion of Upper Secondary Education, 1980-2010, Jin Jiang 10. Challenges in Vietnamese Secondary Education During the Transitional Economy Era, Miho Ito Part V Comparative Analyses and Conclusions 11. Maintaining High School Education in the Low-Fertility Societies of Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea, Mei Kagawa, Shinichi Aizawa and Mitsuharu Tanaka 12. Conclusion, Shinichi Aizawa and Jeremy Rappleye