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Using Hong Kong as a case study, this book discusses teachers' identities and life choices when globalisation and localisation are enmeshed, showing how competing cultural traditions and contexts act as resources or constraints in framing their identities.

Based on research and the author's two-months of personal observation, this book offers a close-up view of the people and the policies that have led to Shanghai's world-class educational performance. Includes detailed tables, sample forms and many photos.

This book examines child-centered education in contemporary Indian policy. Drawing on research conducted in the Indian state of Karnataka, the book offers a multi-level analysis of international, national and state education practices of pedagogic reform.

This book covers the mobility of international students in the Asia Pacific, in the context of the global economy, a competitive trans-national education market, and post-September 11 insecurity. Shows how mobility promotes connection and global citizenship.

This book provides useful strategies to effectively design student-centred learning practices, particularly cooperative learning, in Asian countries with Confucian heritage culture (CHC), such as China, Vietnam, Singapore, Korea and Japan.

This book explores the value that Asian countries place on test-based curriculum and its effects on teaching learning and the lives of young people. Describes the challenge of developing new approaches focused on the needs of students and not on exam results.

This book highlights recent education research on Japan based on sociological and other related approaches to historical developments and accomplishments. It may help sociologists and social scientists outside Japan gain a deeper understanding of ongoing changes in education in Japan as well as its historical and structural contexts.

This book deepens readers' conceptual understanding of and provides practical insights into Vietnam's higher education reforms. At the same time, the book explores local demands on Vietnamese higher education, and deciphers how higher education institutions are responding to globalisation, internationalisation and local demands.

It explores various ways in which belief systems are part of the fabric of higher education - either implicitly or explicitly - and pursues a deeper understanding of the role of belief practices as it plays out in both private and public higher education.

This book addresses growing reservations about the relevance of educational systems to the economic and social needs of individuals by examining different aspects of transitions from school to work or further studies within formal and informal settings in Asia.

This book examines the extent to which studying and living overseas enable returning graduates to enhance their professional work and contribute to community development. This book is based on a research study on Vietnamese overseas graduates who have returned to Vietnam.

This book is particularly timely in light of continuing international efforts to integrate Asia literacy into a national educational system where understanding of Asia - its languages, cultures, histories, and beliefs - is still at an emergent stage for a nation that is evolving into what George Megalogenis refers as 'an Eurasian society' (2015).The contributors to this collection range from the pioneers who created and developed the Asia literacy research space, to those who bring additional new theoretical insights through disciplines such as linguistics and ethnography. Their analysis has resulted in recommendations to develop a deeper understanding of working and living in diverse communities. The book also brings together theoretical perspectives on the current Australian socio-cultural and political context and how that can impact on pedagogical advancement in Asia literacy.The book argues for a broadening focus on what the outcomes Asia literacy in a global world can be for all Australians and offers counter narratives to the myth of a homogenous 'White Australian culture', to provide new ways of engaging with curriculum and pedagogy that transcend superficial awareness of multiculturalism to embrace realistic and reflective principles of global education.

This book illustrates the nature of Japan's education system and identifies its strengths and weaknesses, as well as the socioeconomic environment surrounding education in contemporary Japanese society.

This book highlights recent education research on Japan based on sociological and other related approaches to historical developments and accomplishments. It may help sociologists and social scientists outside Japan gain a deeper understanding of ongoing changes in education in Japan as well as its historical and structural contexts.

This book reflects the paradigm shift now manifesting in Bangladesh's education system by highlighting recent empirical research. It shares essential insights by presenting research conducted on diverse aspects of current day education in Bangladesh, including policy and governance, equity, access and participation, curriculum and pedagogy, assessment, and education programs and projects run by NGOs. Further, it offers a platform for these unique studies to be showcased and disseminated to scholars and researchers from developing and developed countries alike, and represents a unique reference resource for the education research community in Bangladesh, Asia and all over the world.With Foreword from Professor Serajul Islam Choudhury.

This book explores and interprets discourses and practices in school admissions to public lower secondary education in urban China by utilizing a discourse analysis approach and a case study method.

This comprehensive book covers each level of education, such as higher and vocational/technical education, and such topics as internationalization, inequalities and disparities, alternative education, non-formal and informal education, multilingual education, educational policy and planning, and educational assessment.

This book reviews and analyses the issues and policies of internationalization and exportation of higher education and investigates the strategies and models of education hub development in the context of globalization, with Hong Kong in the Asia-Pacific region as a case study.

This book addresses growing reservations about the relevance of educational systems to the economic and social needs of individuals by examining different aspects of transitions from school to work or further studies within formal and informal settings in Asia.

This book discusses key aspects of life in schools and classrooms, and surveys the changes that have occurred over the years in educational research, policy making and practice in these school and classroom settings.

If mobile technologies are to be effectively used in education, how do we best implement sustainable mobile solutions for teaching and learning?

This book focuses on learning and teaching as the core business ofhigher education and explores reformative efforts in response to the influencesof globalised processes in three advanced economies in the Asia-Pacific region:Japan, Hong Kong and Australia.

This book examines Malaysia's educational landscape, providing a contemporary study of key themes that have emerged in this multicultural, multi-ethnic society, as it attempts to shift from a middle-income to a high-income nation.

Given the increasing global interest in Chinese culture, this book uses case studies to describe and interpret Chinese cultivation in contemporary Taiwanese schools. In addition, supports from Chinese educational institutions, including public schools, families, and organizations such as private cram schools, are introduced and explained.

This comprehensive survey of the changing nature of Korean education covers the current state of education, reforms in a changing Korean and world economy, demographic changes and educational challenges including migrant groups, rising divorce rates and more.

This book is a valuable resource not only for those specifically interested in education in Bhutan, but for anyone with an interest in South Asian studies, general Asian studies, educational development, comparative education, Buddhist education, and the Gross National Happiness development philosophy.

This book evaluates recent early childhood education policies on the basis of a '3A2S' framework, which refers to accessibility, affordability, accountability, sustainability, and social justice.

Everyday knowledge offers opportunities for better understanding of significant issues of our times. The underpinning argument is that our instinctive urge for survival may not be enough if we do not share our collective knowledge and learn more about the everyday habits, beliefs and actions of communities spread across the region.

Decentralization and Education: Asian Experiences and Conceptual Contributions examines the specific ways in which decentralization policies have affected the structure and delivery of education in eleven Asian nations.

China's rise, an increasing emphasis on international education benchmarking, and a global recognition of East Asian countries' success in this regard have brought the issue of Chinese education to the forefront of public consciousness.