Education

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

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

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 reports on and analyses the Integrated Language Learning & Social Awareness Project, a unique project in the field of Foreign Language Learning and Telecollaboration till now in the world.

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

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Symposium on Machine Learning and Metaheuristics Algorithms, and Applications, SoMMA 2020, held in Chennai, India, in October 2020.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Symposium on Machine Learning and Metaheuristics Algorithms, and Applications, SoMMA 2019, held in Trivandrum, India, in December 2019.

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 constitutes the proceedings of the 9th CCF Conference on Big Data, BigData 2021, held in Guangzhou, China, in January 2022.

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 gathers the selected papers from the Second International Symposium on Simulation and Process Modelling (ISSPM 2020), which was held online on August 29-30, 2020, due to COVID-19 pandemic.

This book addresses the difficult challenges that children with autism present educators.

This book explores how and why civility contributes to a vibrant democratic society, and how it can be fostered and cultivated as a key part of democratic education.

This book analyses how a water utility from a developing country, Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority, that was totally dysfunctional, corruption-ridden and literally bankrupt in 1993, became one of the most successful water utilities of the developing world in only about 15 years.

This book explores how smartphones affect teaching activities, students' behavior, and learning outcomes.

This book combines, for the first time, the operations management and operations research concepts in lean and agile supply chain management (SCM) for achieving decreased uncertainty, increased productivity, and sustainability through the use of quality engineering techniques (QETs).

This edited volume explores core questions on education and transnational mobility in a time characterized by a global pandemic, recasting them through the lenses of regimes, experiences, and aspirations.

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

This three-volume set (CCIS 1376-1378) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing, CVIP 2020, held in Prayagraj, India, in December 2020.

This book explores foundational theories that have been applied in open and distance education (ODE) research and refined to reflect advances in research and practice.

This book connects the Biblical Paul's work as an educator with the revival of interest in Paul's impact on contemporary social and cultural experience, sometimes referred to as 'Paul's new moment'.

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

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

This two-volume set (CCIS 1393 and CCIS 1394) constitutes selected and revised papers of the 4th International Conference on Advanced Informatics for Computing Research, ICAICR 2020, held in Gurugram, India, in December 2020.

This book presents an extensive analysis of the multifaceted benefits that higher education in the humanities offers individuals and society, as explored in the context of Hong Kong.

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 two volume set (CCIS 1628 and 1629) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference of Pioneering Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators, ICPCSEE 2022 held in Chengdu, China, in  August, 2022.

This book helps teachers understand the links between cooperative learning (also known as collaborative learning and peer learning) and other student-centered approaches.

This book systematically summarizes the author's more than 30 years of experience in teaching reform and educational research.

This book examines what collaboration means in practice, and the factors that enable effective team collaboration for learning and teaching in higher education.

This book deals with teacher training for vocational education and training.

This book examines the approaches, content and design, and practices of current early childhood teacher preparation programs in universities across Australia, and compares them with those in Finland, Norway and Sweden.

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

This book presents research initiatives by tutors involved in a content-based instruction context as part of the University Town writing programme, National University of Singapore, which is an interdisciplinary programme designed to teach first- and second-year undergraduate students how to conduct academic research and write evidence-based research papers.

The book covers all the important aspects of research methodology, and addresses the specific requirements of engineering students, such as methods and tools, in detail.

This book examines the contribution of Vocational Education and Training to advancing human development and reducing inequality.

This book offers a comprehensive report on a three-year, cross-cultural, critical participatory action research study, conducted in children's homes and communities in Fiji.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on User Science and Engineering, i-USEr 2018, held in Puchong, Malaysia, in August 2018.

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

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Advances in Signal Processing and Intelligent Recognition Systems, SIRS 2020, held in Chennai, India, in October 2020.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th National Conference on Computer Science Technology and Education, NCCSTE 2019, held in Kaifeng, China, in October 2019.

This book presents refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference Neural Computing for Advanced Applications, NCAA 2021, held in Guangzhou, China, in August, 2021.

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

This book emphasizes that learning efficiency of the learners can be increased by providing personalized course materials and guiding them to attune with suitable learning paths based on their characteristics such as learning style, knowledge level, emotion, motivation, self-efficacy and many more learning ability factors in e-learning system.

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 book is designed for anyone involved in surgical education.