John Hawkins Professor Emeritus Social Sciences and Comparative Education 3119 Moore Hall (310) 825 8312 hawkins@gseis.ucla.edu

Education

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

Research Interests

Educational policy in comparative perspective
Higher education reform
Education and development in Asia/Pacific
Politics of educational reform

News

Awarded the medal Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques by French Prime Minister Juppe for services rendered to French Culture—1997;

Recent Publications

Rethinking U.S.-Japan Educational Exchanges . co edited--. John Hawkins and William Cummings. New York: SUNY Press, 2000;

Values Education for Dynamic Societies: Individualism or Collectivism. Co-edited with William Cummings and Teresa Tatto. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2001.

“Centralization, decentralization, recentralization: educational reform in China.” Journal of Educational Administration. 38, 5 (2000) pp 442-454.

"Shifting Perspectives on Comparative Research: a View from the USA," with Val D Rust. Comparative Education, Vol. 37, No. 4 (2001), pp. 501-506.

GSEIS Website Info.

"Choices and Commitment: A Comparison of Teacher Candidates' Profiles and Perspectives in China and the United States," (2002) with Zhixin Su, Tao Huang, and Zhiyi Zhao. International Review of Education. Vol. 47, No. 6, pp. 611-635.

"Walking on Three Legs: Centralization, Decentralization, and Recentralization in Chinese Education," chapter in: Decentralization in Asia, Edited by Christopher Bjork. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Projects:

Principal Investigator: Teacher Education Reform in Ethiopia; USAID

Principal Investigator: Takagi Fund for Educational Reform

Project Team Member: East West Center Program on New Educational Paradigms

Links

CIDE Website