Lorraine Pe Symaco
Biographic Data
| ID | 319683 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorraine Pe Symaco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorraine Pe |
| FAMILY NAME | Symaco |
| SIGNATURE | SYMACO L P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Zhejiang University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1255-3871 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
John Keith Philip Watson 1939–2024
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Keith Watson on November 24, 2024.Keith was a pillar in international and comparative education, focusing on education in Southeast Asia and other countries in the Asia region
Access to Education of Rural Girls in Pakistan
This paper investigates barriers to education access in rural Pakistan based on multi-stakeholder interviews, highlighting contextual socio-economic disparities and challenges to girls’ education. Applying the social exclusion lens, we examine various issues contributing to this heightened lack of education access. Thirty-four participants from multiple stakeholders (students, schools, government, community, and family) from three villages in the…
Language Policy in the Philippines: The Ongoing Narrative of Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education
The multicultural and multilingual setting of the Philippines demands a coherent and cohesive language-in-education policy for broader development. The country is also one of the first in Southeast Asia to formally adopt the mother tongue-based multilingual education policy (MTB-MLE) in mainstream formal education. The MTB-MLE policy aimed to introduce schooling based on Filipino children’s inherent language and knowledge—centered on the use and …
International Handbook on Education in South East Asia
Overview of Education in Philippines
Overview of Education in the Philippines
Students’ Entrepreneurial Identity Construction: Role and Social Identity Influences
Identity directly impacts how university students behave and make decisions in entrepreneurial practice. Therefore, it is significant to explore the factors influencing the identity construction of student-entrepreneurs to understand how processes are internalized by students, which may then affect their entrepreneurial identity. This article interrogates the formation and transition of the entrepreneurial identity of student-entrepreneurs in a C…
University-wide entrepreneurship education in China's higher education institutions: Issues and Challenges
The rise of university-wide entrepreneurship education (EE) programmes in the past two decades is witnessed both in developed and developing regions. The ‘Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation’ strategy introduced in China in 2014 and series of policies issued afterwards highlight the increasing importance of entrepreneurship, and the parallel promotion of university-wide EE throughout the country. Based on a semi-structured interviews and policy …
Higher Education for Development: The Role of University Towns in China
China's expansion in higher education has also given rise to developing university towns in sub-cities to deal with increasing enrollments and contribute to broader socio-economic development. Taking Xiasha University Town in Hangzhou as a case study, this paper adopts a tripartite framework of teaching, research, and service to investigate the role of university towns in human capital and skills development, regional innovation, and social and c…
Internationalisation of higher education in Malaysia and the Philippines: A comparative analysis of mission and vision statements of selected universities
This paper examines how internationalisation of higher education institutions is reflected through their mission and vision statements by comparatively analysing the mission and vision statements of selected universities in Malaysia and the Philippines. To carry out the study, twenty (20) mission and vision statements of public and private universities in Malaysia and the Philippines were collected and analysed, underlined by the importance of te…
Social responsibility and engagement in higher education: Case of the Asean
Higher education, bridging capital, and developmental leadership in the Philippines: Learning to be a crossover reformer
The article presents findings from a research project which explored how experiences of higher education supported – or not – the emergence of developmental leadership and the formation of networks among leaders of three political and social movements in the Philippines in the post-Marcos era. Based on life history interviews with key leaders, the study points to the importance of different forms of social capital, especially bridging capital, in…
Education, language policy and language use in the Philippines
The roles of language policy and language practice and use in education have been regarded to influence the efficacy of teaching and learning in the school setting. With the rise of globalisation and internationalisation of services in education, the objective of producing manpower that is equipped to the demands of the knowledge-based economy has realigned government policies worldwide to put education at the forefront of its development plans. …
Geographies of social exclusion: Education access in the Philippines
Despite the massive education sector of the country, the Philippines – being located in the Pacific Ring of Fire and the typhoon belt – is home to a number of natural instabilities that frequently disrupt the school calendar. Conflict areas in selected parts of the island of Mindanao and the remote geographic features of the country also pose problems in education access. Poverty incidence is reported to be high in such locations and access to ba…
Educational space
Education, language policy and language use in the Philippines
The roles of language policy and language practice and use in education have been regarded to influence the efficacy of teaching and learning in the school setting. With the rise of globalisation and internationalisation of services in education, the objective of producing manpower that is equipped to the demands of the knowledge-based economy has realigned government policies worldwide to put education at the forefront of its development plans. …
Internationalisation of higher education in Malaysia and the Philippines: A comparative analysis of mission and vision statements of selected universities
This paper examines how internationalisation of higher education institutions is reflected through their mission and vision statements by comparatively analysing the mission and vision statements of selected universities in Malaysia and the Philippines. To carry out the study, twenty (20) mission and vision statements of public and private universities in Malaysia and the Philippines were collected and analysed, underlined by the importance of te…
Social responsibility and engagement in higher education: Case of the Asean
Geographies of social exclusion: Education access in the Philippines
Despite the massive education sector of the country, the Philippines – being located in the Pacific Ring of Fire and the typhoon belt – is home to a number of natural instabilities that frequently disrupt the school calendar. Conflict areas in selected parts of the island of Mindanao and the remote geographic features of the country also pose problems in education access. Poverty incidence is reported to be high in such locations and access to ba…
Higher Education for Development: The Role of University Towns in China
China's expansion in higher education has also given rise to developing university towns in sub-cities to deal with increasing enrollments and contribute to broader socio-economic development. Taking Xiasha University Town in Hangzhou as a case study, this paper adopts a tripartite framework of teaching, research, and service to investigate the role of university towns in human capital and skills development, regional innovation, and social and c…
Geographies of social exclusion: Education access in the Philippines
Despite the massive education sector of the country, the Philippines – being located in the Pacific Ring of Fire and the typhoon belt – is home to a number of natural instabilities that frequently disrupt the school calendar. Conflict areas in selected parts of the island of Mindanao and the remote geographic features of the country also pose problems in education access. Poverty incidence is reported to be high in such locations and access to ba…
Educational space
Higher education, bridging capital, and developmental leadership in the Philippines: Learning to be a crossover reformer
The article presents findings from a research project which explored how experiences of higher education supported – or not – the emergence of developmental leadership and the formation of networks among leaders of three political and social movements in the Philippines in the post-Marcos era. Based on life history interviews with key leaders, the study points to the importance of different forms of social capital, especially bridging capital, in…
Education, language policy and language use in the Philippines
The roles of language policy and language practice and use in education have been regarded to influence the efficacy of teaching and learning in the school setting. With the rise of globalisation and internationalisation of services in education, the objective of producing manpower that is equipped to the demands of the knowledge-based economy has realigned government policies worldwide to put education at the forefront of its development plans. …
Social responsibility and engagement in higher education: Case of the Asean
Internationalisation of higher education in Malaysia and the Philippines: A comparative analysis of mission and vision statements of selected universities
This paper examines how internationalisation of higher education institutions is reflected through their mission and vision statements by comparatively analysing the mission and vision statements of selected universities in Malaysia and the Philippines. To carry out the study, twenty (20) mission and vision statements of public and private universities in Malaysia and the Philippines were collected and analysed, underlined by the importance of te…
Higher Education for Development: The Role of University Towns in China
China's expansion in higher education has also given rise to developing university towns in sub-cities to deal with increasing enrollments and contribute to broader socio-economic development. Taking Xiasha University Town in Hangzhou as a case study, this paper adopts a tripartite framework of teaching, research, and service to investigate the role of university towns in human capital and skills development, regional innovation, and social and c…
Overview of Education in the Philippines
Students’ Entrepreneurial Identity Construction: Role and Social Identity Influences
Identity directly impacts how university students behave and make decisions in entrepreneurial practice. Therefore, it is significant to explore the factors influencing the identity construction of student-entrepreneurs to understand how processes are internalized by students, which may then affect their entrepreneurial identity. This article interrogates the formation and transition of the entrepreneurial identity of student-entrepreneurs in a C…
University-wide entrepreneurship education in China's higher education institutions: Issues and Challenges
The rise of university-wide entrepreneurship education (EE) programmes in the past two decades is witnessed both in developed and developing regions. The ‘Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation’ strategy introduced in China in 2014 and series of policies issued afterwards highlight the increasing importance of entrepreneurship, and the parallel promotion of university-wide EE throughout the country. Based on a semi-structured interviews and policy …
Overview of Education in Philippines
International Handbook on Education in South East Asia
John Keith Philip Watson 1939–2024
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Keith Watson on November 24, 2024.Keith was a pillar in international and comparative education, focusing on education in Southeast Asia and other countries in the Asia region
Access to Education of Rural Girls in Pakistan
This paper investigates barriers to education access in rural Pakistan based on multi-stakeholder interviews, highlighting contextual socio-economic disparities and challenges to girls’ education. Applying the social exclusion lens, we examine various issues contributing to this heightened lack of education access. Thirty-four participants from multiple stakeholders (students, schools, government, community, and family) from three villages in the…
Language Policy in the Philippines: The Ongoing Narrative of Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education
The multicultural and multilingual setting of the Philippines demands a coherent and cohesive language-in-education policy for broader development. The country is also one of the first in Southeast Asia to formally adopt the mother tongue-based multilingual education policy (MTB-MLE) in mainstream formal education. The MTB-MLE policy aimed to introduce schooling based on Filipino children’s inherent language and knowledge—centered on the use and …
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Higher education (7 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Higher Education Governance and Development (4 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (4 works)