Educational systems and structures

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 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 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 reports on a five-year longitudinal study of the policy relating to the introduction of Liberal Studies, which was developed as an interdisciplinary curriculum in the New Senior Secondary (NSS) academic structure in post-colonial Hong Kong.

This edited collection provides an in-depth exploration of different aspects of contemporary early childhood literacy research and the implications for educational practice.

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

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

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

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

This book focuses on the topic of academic publishing.

This book introduces the educational philosophies of notable African and Asian thinkers who tend to be little recognized in Europe and North America.

This book offers an in-depth historiographical and comparative analysis of prominent theoretical and methodological debates in the field.

This book draws on real-world case studies to highlight key challenges and support the crafting of relevant and contextual responses.

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

This book brings together policies, practices, and identities pertaining to doctoral publication through an in-depth longitudinal multiple-case study of doctoral students' scholarly publishing endeavors.

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

This book collects case studies in design and application of technology-mediated case-based learning models in higher education.

This handbook presents a timeless, comprehensive, and up-to-date resource covering major issues in the field of teacher education research.

This book presents an update on teacher and education development research, policymaking and innovation within the Belt and Road Countries.

This book offers a vision of an integrated Humanities curriculum, potentiated by the depth and diversity of perspectives that Catholic Studies contributes to both Catholic and secular universities.

This book investigates the unique and dynamic approaches to key issues of changing images of child and childhood, by different countries in the Asia-Pacific.

This interdisciplinary book offers a critical analysis of Thai education and its evolution, providing diverse perspectives and theoretical frameworks.

This book describes a comparative study of the primary science learning objectives (from the cognitive domain) in the curriculum of six high-achieving East Asian states - mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Japan and Singapore.

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 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.

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.

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.

This book evaluates recent early childhood education policies on the basis of a '3A2S' framework, which refers to accessibility, affordability, accountability, sustainability, and social justice.

This international handbook provides a sophisticated re-examination of self-study of teaching and teacher education practices research 16 years after the publication of the first edition by Springer (2004).

This book discusses activity-based collaborative active learning (CAL) approaches in connection with the learning and teaching of STEM and non-STEM disciplines.

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

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 focuses on the relationship between cultural capital and student achievement.

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

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

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

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

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 deals with teacher training for vocational education and training.

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

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

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

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