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In a groundbreaking text that will inspire literacy educators, the authors here describe research on low-literate, poor buyers and sellers in subsistence marketplaces. They examine the consequent development of an innovative marketplace literacy educational program that enables consumer and entrepreneurial literacy.

This book examines issues in alternative and mainstream education systems. It presents not only alternative forms of education facing actual issues in societies but also legal and administrative features of education.

Aims to provide a global sharing of the major trends and characteristics of the ongoing teacher education reforms in Asia-Pacific region and the major challenges and issues raised in policy formulation and reform implementation. This volume is useful for teachers, teacher educators, researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders.

The contributors to this volume explore the close relationship between education and the molding of modern immigrant societies through case studies of either Asian migrants or Asian immigrant societies.

It is an approach to assessment that acknowledges the centrality of self-directed learning and which positions assessment as a tool to enable and enhance self-directed learning.