Educational systems and structures

This book focuses on the use of the Rasch measurement model in validation studies and in analyzing the psychometric properties of a variety of test instruments, questionnaires, and scales in international contexts.

This book explores a range of educational issues in the Pacific Islands, from school leadership in various contexts to the importance of forging cordial school and community partnerships.

This book provides a fresh and unique overview of the modernization and internationalization of Chinese higher education, focusing on Chinese higher education from 1949 to 2018.

This book, the result of a landmark colloquium held in Korea to reflect on the role of education in Korean society, provides fascinating insights into the interplay of political evolution and pedagogy.

This book provides a framework for investigating faculty development in the Chinese higher education system, and proposes a faculty development model, which is subsequently applied to assess the conceptual, practical and strategic dimensions of Chinese faculty development.

This book explores how higher education and sustainability interact in New Zealand, and argues that higher education at present may be contributing as much to unsustainability as it does to sustainability.

This book brings together discussions about Australian arts policy and funding, outcomes of arts engagement in terms of social inclusion, well-being and education.

This book examines a collaborative partnership model between academia and Indigenous peoples, the goal of which is to integrate Indigenous perspectives into the curriculum.

This book analyzes how universities in the Greater Bay Area in South China could work together for promoting innovation-centric entrepreneurship, research and knowledge transfer, as well as establishing a leading higher education hub in China mainland.

This book examines the alignment of residential educational aims and university educational aims in order to provide guidance for implementing university-specific residential educational aims.

This book presents a holistic view of child development that emphasises on being mindful of the child as well as his/her environment.

This book comprehensively examines classroom culture in the Chinese context and develops the model of "e;collective-individualism-based learning.

This book offers a philosophical inquiry into the idea of curriculum as confession and considers how it can help us answer questions of justice, selfhood, and truth.

This book offers insights into how higher educational institutions and educators have responded to the immense challenges of managing the COVID-19 pandemic.

This unique book comprehensively covers the evolving field of transversality, globalization and education, and presents creative, research-based thought experiments that seek to unravel the forces of globalization impacting education.

This book traces how a new school, physically designed as a modern learning environment, has come into being in New Zealand.

This book presents a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the educational governance reform trajectory and the latest issues in China, addressing several important topics such as administration, internal management, provision, enrollment, employment, financing, examinations, evaluation and quality assurance.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of how inclusion for students with special educational needs (SEN) has developed and is continuing to evolve in mainstream schools across the Asia-Pacific region.

This book offers international readers a comprehensive introduction to higher education in China, and will help readers around the globe make sense of the huge and complex machinery that makes up the university and college sector in China today.

In this book, leading teacher education researchers from Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, Finland, Hong Kong SAR, the Netherlands, New Zealand, North Ireland, Portugal, Scotland, the USA and Wales examine teacher education policy and research in each of their contexts.

This book is a Festschrift for Emeritus Professor Stephen Kemmis, who has a long and eminent career as an educational researcher and academic spanning over 40 years.

In a context in which explicit attention to the curriculum has been sidelined in universities' strategy, this book makes an argument for why curriculum matters, both in understanding the effects of unbundled online learning and more broadly.

This book explores the Islamic tradition and Muslim contexts for educational administration and leadership.

This book uses an in-depth, phenomenological interview approach to explain the generational characteristics of today's Chinese university youths and the critical dispositions they believe indispensable in acquiring English as an academic language in and outside school settings.

This book combines insights from language assessment literacy and critical language testing through critical analyses and research about challenges in language assessment around the world.

This book critically explores urgent questions that researchers, educators, and policy makers need to consider and address in order to better our understanding and capacity to transform education.

This book explores the construct of reading comprehension by means of two main test methods.

This volume brings together significant international research in technology education by focusing on contemporary postgraduate research, elaborating on the findings with the aim of making the content relevant to researchers, teachers and other potential researchers in the field.

International comparative studies of student achievement have caught the attention of governments, policy-makers, school leaders and educational researchers globally.

Using comparative qualitative methodology, this book examines three Chinese societies, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mainland China, as specific cases of democratic, hybrid and authoritarian regimes, presenting the theoretical underpinnings of civic education in contexts other than liberal democracy.

This book documents and deconstructs the concept of educational leadership within various education settings originating from diverse global environments.

This book explores teaching and learning through science investigation and practical work.

This book discusses the merits and potential shortcomings of Hong Kong STEM education from Grade 8 to Grade 12.

This book discusses the situation of Taiwanese universities facing a rapidly changing domestic and global environment.

This book explores alternative models of civics and citizenship education.

This book highlights reliable, valid and practical testing and assessment of interpreting, presenting important developments in China, where testing and assessment have long been a major concern for interpreting educators and researchers, but have remained largely under-reported.

The outstanding performance of East Asian societies in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is one of the most widely discussed topics in international assessments.

This book explores how best to invest in and nurture teachers.

This book develops a progressive program of engagement with issues, problems and critical thinking which helps universities and students understand and engage with some of the key issues of our time.

This book provides a holistic picture of how Chinese turnaround schools have been remarkably improved over the years and to arouse further discussion in this regard.

This book serves as an essential intervention where the innovative, evidence based and contemporary teaching, learning approaches, strategies and learning support systems to be incorporated in the learning process are presented, supported with findings.

This book explores graduate education governance in China from a comprehensive policy perspective.

This book presents strategies and practices for facilitating effective learning for mainland Chinese students in western based education - regarding e.

This book shares young scholars' (current PhD students and those who completed their PhD between 2010 and 2015) experiences with conducting qualitative social research.

This book identifies and surveys the major themes around 'out-of-field teaching', that is, teaching subjects or year levels without a specialization.

This book examines new directions in home-school relations from an international perspective.

This book applies Rasch measurement theory to the fields of education, psychology, sociology, marketing and health outcomes in order to measure various social constructs.

This edited book is a collection of papers, written by language assessment professionals to reflect the guidance of Professor Lyle F.

This book casts a refreshingly new light on current literature on school leadership, which has predominantly been viewed through Western lenses.

The tenth edition of the four-yearly review of mathematics education research in Australasia, compiled by the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA), critically reviews research in mathematics education in the four years from 2016 to 2019.