Educational systems and structures

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 addresses student passivity in teacher education.

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

This book explores how Chinese students abroad may suffer stress, and how they conceptualize and adapt to stress in the American higher education environment.

This book adopts as conceptual focus the technical mode of experience, exploring this characteristic mode of design as the angle from which the discipline of applied linguistics takes its cue.

This handbook provides a frame of reference for the global challenges facing higher education leadership today.

This book analyses dominant discourses of globalisation and leadership in schools.

This book focuses on enhanced educator awareness of issues involving the status of the right to education as guaranteed by various legal systems throughout the world, in light of the growing interest in comparative and international studies, including the law.

How do teachers assess the ordinary classroom work of young children?

This book is a useful guide for the teaching fraternity, administrators and education technology professionals to make good use of AI across outcome-based technical education (OBTE) ecosystem and infuse innovations and affordable digital technologies to traditional pedagogic processes to make teaching-learning more independent of human factor (teacher/student quality), time and place and at the same time more impactful and enjoyable for the learners.

During the last two decades Confucian heritage culture countries have widely promoted teaching and learning reforms to advance their educational systems.

This book critically explores why some Asian nations are on top of the world in students' achievement tests in reading and literacy, yet governments and industry in these nations are anxious about a crisis in education.

This edited volume offers a comprehensive survey of Korean education in transition.

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

This book discusses issues related to teachers' identities and life choices when globalisation and localisation are enmeshed.

This book explores key aspects of the personal, educational and professional characteristics of international faculty members, their work roles and challenges they face in Asia and the Pacific, compared to those from Europe and the United States.

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

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 reports the findings of an interpretive case study of the phenomenon of science investigation (science inquiry) from students' perspective.

This ethnography asks the question, what does learning to teach mean to student teachers and to those around them in an exam-driven rural school in China?

Given the increasing global interest in Chinese culture, this book uses case studies to describe and interpret Chinese cultivation in contemporary Taiwanese schools.

This book is about the power of education: the kind of education that simultaneously improves the quality of life both of individuals and the wider society.

This book examines education transfer, specifically focusing on pedagogic transfer, and analyzes what happens when lesson study is introduced into foreign contextual settings.

This book explores stakeholders' perspectives, their practices, and engagement with enacting the employability agenda in the context of a rapidly changing world.

Chapter 7 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.

This book focuses on the topic of academic publishing.

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

This book is about becoming touched and moved by Karen Barad's agential realism.

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

This book is a collection of the leading scientific studies, which elaborate on the unique specifics of Central Asia and Russia and dwell on the potential and current contribution of digital higher education to the preservation of these specifics and adaptation of universities to them.

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 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 deals with teacher training for vocational education and training.

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

This book presents the findings of two case studies in the 'Making Connections' two-year project funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Education.

This book provides an introduction to what it means to be numerate, and how numeracy can best be developed and nurtured in children and in adults.

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.

In many countries across the Asia Pacific region, people are adapting to the new demographic shift, but there is nonetheless much concern.

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 is a detailed manual for the implementation of competence diagnostics in the field of vocational training.

This book identifies three types of influential forces that pose challenges to innovations: socio-cultural dynamics, teacher individuality, and local circumstances.

This book examines teachers' conceptions and practices of assessment in Tanzania.

This book was developed during a particular pandemic situation in the whole world which confined people to their homes.

This book marks a departure from traditional assumptions concerning the deficiencies of Chinese international students in terms of learning and adapting.

This book is a useful guide for the teaching fraternity, administrators and education technology professionals to make good use of AI across outcome-based technical education (OBTE) ecosystem and infuse innovations and affordable digital technologies to traditional pedagogic processes to make teaching-learning more independent of human factor (teacher/student quality), time and place and at the same time more impactful and enjoyable for the learners.

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.