JOHN N. HAWKINS
Brief Curriculum Vitae

Professor of Comparative and International Education (1973 to present)
Graduate School of Education
University of California, Los Angeles
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Teaching responsibilities are in the Division of Social Sciences and Comparative Education. Courses taught include: Education and National Development, Politics of Education, Education in the Asia/Pacific Region, and Education and Intergroup Relations.

Director of the Center for International and Development Education (CIDE)
2002-present.

Dean of International Studies and Overseas Programs
(as of 01 July 1991; Director 1988-1991; Acting Director 1987-1988; Associate Director 1985-1987)


RESEARCH

Research interests have focused on education and politics, rural education, policy studies and project management education, and education and intergroup relations. Field work has been conducted in North America, Canada, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Pacific Basin, and Africa. Current research interests are in the area of cross-national influences on higher education with particular reference to the transfer of educational forms between developed and developing nations, the transformation of rural education in Asia, and responsibility-centered budgeting in higher education.

EDUCATION

BA 1967, Honors in Asian Studies, University of Hawaii, Honolulu
MA 1969, Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Ph.D. 1973, Education, Comparative Education, Chinese Studies, Vanderbilt University, George Peabody College

HONORS

1994: Recipient of Outstanding Foreign Scholar Award from the Center for Learning and
Evaluation, Yokohama, Japan

1997: Named Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques by French Prime Minister
Juppe for services rendered to French Culture. Nominated by the Consulate General of France in Los Angeles.

PUBLICATIONS

Development or Deterioration? Work in Rural Asia. eds. Bruce Koppel, John Hawkins, and William James. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 1994.

Rethinking U.S.-Japan Educational Exchanges. eds. John Hawkins and William Cummings. New York: SUNY Press, In press

Proceedings of the National Conference on the Future of International Education. Washington DC: US Department of Education, forthcoming, 1998.

ARTICLES

"Education and the State in China: Evolutionary and Revolutionary Transformations," submitted upon request to Paedogogica Historica.

"Issues of Motivation in Asian Education." In Motivation: Theory and Research. Ed. by H.O'Neil, Jr. and M. Drillings. NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1994.

"Assessing the Relevance of American Community College Models in Japan," with Tina Yamano. In Dimensions of the Community College: International and Multicultural Perspectives. Ed. by R. Raby and N. Tarrow. Estimated publication: 1995.

"Rethinking the US-Japan Educational Exchange Experience: The Collegiate Level," with Tina Yamano and Yoshiro Tanaka. Ed. by William Cummings. 1995.

"Higher Education Reform and Science and Technology in China." In the International Handbook of Education and Development: Preparing Schools, Students and Nations for the Twenty-First Century. Ed. by W. Cummings and N. McGinn. Pergamon Press. 1998.

"Education in the Asia Pacific Region," in Society and Culture in the Pacific. Edited by Richard Maidment. London: Open University Press. In press.

EDITOR

Journal of Learning and Evaluation, co-edited with Professor Matsuura.1970- present

Towards Transnational Competence: Rethinking International Education. Co-edited with the Taskforce for Transnational Competence. New York: IIE. 1997.

Comparative Education Review, 1998.

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