Educational strategies and policy

The Shanghai school system has attracted worldwide attention since its impressive performance in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2009.

This book explores avenues for organisations to better understand the origins of occupational stress so as to enable their managerial employees to effectively manage stress levels.

This book focuses on crisis management in software development which includes forecasting, responding and adaptive engineering models, methods, patterns and practices.

This book offers a theoretically and empirically robust account of what is known about the effective approaches that translate theory to practice in teacher education, presenting evidence from case studies from a diverse range of contexts informed by various methodological foundations.

This book offers a first look at transnational education corporations, new firms that operate international schools.

This book summarizes and updates findings from the Australian Values Education Program with a focus on the latest international research in the field, both theoretical and practice-based.

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 presents unique management perspectives from Thailand's Healthcare Industry.

This book examines the links between employee-organisation relationships, work wellness and the impact thereof on the labour market from a South African perspective.

This book addresses one of the most persistent issues confronting governments, educations systems and schools today: the attraction, preparation, and retention of early career teachers.

This book explores in a theoretical and practical sense the challenges and opportunities arising in the initial and ongoing formation processes for teachers in Catholic schools.

This book is a stepping stone toward solving public sector human capital challenges in Zimbabwe as it equips human capital managers with solutions to key issues in the public sector.

This edited book brings together teachers and education academics who are committed to education about, for and through democracy.

This book showcases models of Australian school-university partnerships which, in their development, respond to, and aim to move beyond the principles and practices of current partnership mandates in initial teacher education.

This book is an exploration of the people analytics possibility, bringing out both theoretical frameworks and detailed practical case studies from the author's experience in industry and business across both sides of the table, with an understanding of data science models and SMAC (Social, Mobile & Cloud) technologies underpinning it.

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This book provides an in-depth, multi-faceted look into capacity building for service-learning, using the case of the higher education landscape in Hong Kong.

This book focuses on English as a Medium of Instruction practices in higher education in Vietnam, addressing institutional, practitioner and student perspectives.

This book examines educators and parents' practices of corporal punishment of preschool-aged children in school and at home in Tanzania, considering why it is that many children in Tanzania are still subject to corporal punishment.

This book proposes some insights and ideas into how education might be humanized.

This edited book is a comprehensive resource for understanding the history as well as the current status of educational practices in Singapore.

This book puts forth a call to engagement for educators at all levels of education and in all subject areas, with a focus on language education.

This book is the most comprehensive account yet published about the education system in Cambodia.

This book addresses contemporary issues on civic and citizenship education, challenging not just schools but society as a whole.

This book is a philosophical enquiry into the educational consequences of Spinoza’s political theory.

This book is cast in a Singaporean context in which Chinese Language is taught as a second language with an emphasis on communicational skills.

This book records the history of Japan's international cooperation in education from the 1950s to 2020.

This book presents a sociocultural account of logic, or a pedagogy, that governs Cambodian education, from policy-making to classroom practices.

This book discusses the strategies that the Singapore Education System has embarked to encourage school change and innovations.

This book focuses on the disruption of the tertiary higher education system as a result of societal changes occasioned by the Fourth Industrial Revolution and hastened by COVID-19.

This book is to provide insights into the process of individual unlearning, which is little known in previous studies.

Is educational research chasing the trends one can observe in big sciences, mimicking what happens, some would say successfully, elsewhere in academia?

This book offers new ideas for thinking about how more equitable outcomes might be achieved in New Zealand so that all students are well-equipped to live and work in contemporary society.

This book explores recent trends in the knowledge-based society and education field in Asia-Pacific and discusses future challenges in the region.

This book presents and theorises research findings into why and how school principals play a critical role in engaging parents and their school communities to enhance student learning and wellbeing.

This book extends liberal understandings in and about democratic citizenship education in relation to university pedagogy, more specifically higher teaching and learning.

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the cross-border mobility of Chinese students and addresses the questions of who in China chooses to study overseas, why they want to do so, and what the impacts of this mobility are on China's social stratification.

This book presents a duoethnographic exploration and narrative account of what it means to be a teacher educator today.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of what it means to be the first in family at university.

This book offers an accessible guide to understanding the importance of a systems approach to embedding sustainability into teacher education practice, providing a practical resource for teacher education academics and others with an interest in organisational change.

This book presents and theorises research findings into why and how school principals play a critical role in engaging parents and their school communities to enhance student learning and wellbeing.

This book deepens readers' conceptual understanding of and provides practical insights into Vietnam's higher education reforms.

This edited volume brings together diverse perspectives on Australian literacy education for Indigenous peoples, highlighting numerous educational approaches, ideologies and aspirations.

This book challenges dominant thinking about early career teachers and their work.

This book discusses the developments in policy and practice in the field of formal, non-formal and continuing vocational education and training in Spain since 1970.

This book explores how concepts and values of contemporary democracy are variously understood and applied in diverse cultural contexts, with a focus on children and childhood and diversity.

The book highlights current issues influencing civic and citizenship education and their theoretical underpinnings.

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 is the first ever handbook on giftedness and talent development for the Asia-Pacific region.

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.