Educational systems and structures

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 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.

This book explores the ongoing transformation processes in various education systems, including those in Asia.

This book focuses on the relationship between cultural capital and student achievement.

This book provides a comprehensive and in-depth description of the education system in Lao PDR.

This book addresses student passivity in teacher education.

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

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.

This book underscores the role of belief and knowledge that are outside the canons of science, as they are not often considered within the core functions of a university.

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.

The book addresses issues related to the education of ethnic minority individuals in the multilingual Asian 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.

This book analyses the organisation cultures that promote Japanese Lesson Study, identifies the soul of lesson study, which is missing in other cultures, and discusses the conditions for successfully transplanting the Lesson Study to other cultures.

This book uses case studies of Aotearoa New Zealand policy formulation and practice to explore early childhood education and care (ECEC) as a site for democratic citizenship and social justice.

This book highlights recent education research on Japan based on sociological and other related approaches to historical developments and accomplishments.

This book provides teachers, instructors, scholars, and administrators with a practical guide to implement portfolio assessment of writing in their work contexts.

This book investigates the implementation of the education policy for migrant children, arguing that it has been selectively implemented: while some policy themes have been effectively implemented, others have not.

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).

This book reflects the paradigm shift now manifesting in Bangladesh's education system by highlighting recent empirical research.

This book discusses what internationalization practices are and the different ways that they are being implemented by higher education institutions in Japan, from a bottom-up perspective.

This book draws on experiences from a range of vocational education systems in different nation states and re-examines the purpose of providing experiences outside educational institutions; the kinds and extent of those experiences; and efforts made to ensure the integration of students' experiences across sites.

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.

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Arts and Arts Integrated Learning for Middle Level Education brings together a diverse array of international perspectives on arts and arts integrated learning in and out of schools for young adolescent students, aged 10-15.

This book is the first comprehensive account of developments in open and distance non-formal education in developing countries for over more than 20 years.

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.

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

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.