Objectives
The course aims to help students to gain a better understanding of the various ways in which welfare policies have evolved in East Asia in order to be able to engage critically with the debates and challenges surrounding the current East Asian welfare regimes. Completing the course will therefore allow students to learn:
1. The key concepts and competing theoretical perspectives in the main social policy sectors in East Asia: social security, education, health, housing, the labour market
2. The overall historical, economic, social, and political contexts in which social policies are made and implemented as well as their specific outcomes
3. How the provision of welfare policies in Asia work and may be improved from a comparative perspective in the context of recent global social policy developments
This course will also give students a chance to develop further their critical thinking skills, their ability to gather information as well as to identify evidence-based arguments, and to articulate their thoughts with greater clarity, concision, and analytical precision.
The course aims to help students to gain a better understanding of the various ways in which welfare policies have evolved in East Asia in order to be able to engage critically with the debates and challenges surrounding the current East Asian welfare regimes. Completing the course will therefore allow students to learn:
1. The key concepts and competing theoretical perspectives in the main social policy sectors in East Asia: social security, education, health, housing, the labour market
2. The overall historical, economic, social, and political contexts in which social policies are made and implemented as well as their specific outcomes
3. How the provision of welfare policies in Asia work and may be improved from a comparative perspective in the context of recent global social policy developments
This course will also give students a chance to develop further their critical thinking skills, their ability to gather information as well as to identify evidence-based arguments, and to articulate their thoughts with greater clarity, concision, and analytical precision.
- Teacher: Yoko Demelius
- Peppi-Teacher: Hermann Aubié