Education

This book explores the notion of software literacy, a key part of digital literacy which all contemporary students and citizens need to understand.

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 provides a fresh approach to studies on adolescents with visual impairment.

This book highlights the multiple ways that digital technologies are being used in everyday contexts at home and school, in communities, and across diverse activities, from play to web searching, to talking to family members who are far away.

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 describes key practices to bring school mental health programs to scale in a sustainable and effective manner.

This book examines the risks involved in agriculture from the farmer's perspective.

This book is the first to cover the research of whole aspects of international mobility to and from Taiwan of both skilled and unskilled workers.

This book explores the concept of school belonging in adolescents from a socio-ecological perspective, acknowledging that young people are uniquely connected to a broad network of groups and systems within a school system.

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.

This book moves away from the frameworks that have traditionally guided ethical decision-making in the Western clinical setting, towards an inclusive, non-coercive and, reflective dialogic approach to moral decision-making.

This book is the seventh volume in a series entitled "e;Contemporary Logistics in China,"e; authored by researchers from the Logistics Center at Nankai University.

This book employs the modern econometric approaches such as DEA, Malmquist Index and Tobit models to evaluate research effectiveness and productivity of research-oriented universities in China.

This book provides a critical review of the theory and practice of University Social Responsibility.

This book discusses key aspects of life in schools and classrooms, and surveys the changes that have occurred over the years in educational  research, policy making and practice in these school and classroom settings.

This book redefines teacher in-service education as being less about participation in a program and more about the opportunity for teachers to experience a process of learning that is personally meaningful and contextually relevant to their own teaching practice.

This edited book is on the theory and practice of teacher education from the most distinguished and experienced scholars in the field around the world.

This book showcases cutting-edge research papers from the 6th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD 2017) - the largest in India in this area - written by eminent researchers from across the world on design process, technologies, methods and tools, and their impact on innovation, for supporting design for communities.

This book offers a detailed examination of reflective practice in teacher education.

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

The editors of this book have brought together contributors from many parts of the world.

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.

While firmly acknowledging the importance of play in early childhood, this book interrogates the assumption that play is a birthright.

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 book explores theoretical and practical aspects of implementing mobile language learning in university classrooms for English as a Foreign Language in Japan.

This book presents an analysis of corporal punishment practices in rural schools.

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

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 book examines how educational change has progressed in three contrasting areas spread across China since 1990, exploring key issues concerning rural education in poor, rich and minority areas.

This book provides the first detailed history of the Bilingual Education Program in the Northern Territory of Australia.

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, in contrast with previous research and popular discussions that focus on the productivity of workers, identifies the critical influence of supervisors and engineers as key drivers of productivity differentials.

This book provides a critical review of the internationalization process among higher education institutions (HEIs), taking a closer look at the case of business schools.

This book takes a process approach of identifying, evaluating, selecting, managing and developing suppliers to create more value for customers.

This book provides readers a holistic and pragmatic approach towards supply management in China.

Bhutan is a country in the Himalayas with a relatively new education system and a unique governmental philosophy known as Gross National Happiness.

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 book traces the research on the design, implementation and outcomes of a professional development program for in-service primary and secondary school teachers aimed at enhancing their understanding of living music traditions in Singapore and how these could be taught in the 21st century music classroom.

The subject of this book is young children's emotional-social learning and development within early childhood care and education settings in Aotearoa-New Zealand.

This book highlights participatory video as an instrument for community-based adult education and focuses in particular on the role that it can play in promoting participatory culture among adult learners.

Utilizing a case study method and a Multiperspectival Approach, this volume presents a pioneering, in-depth study about China's teacher education policy since the 1990s.

This book reports the impact a four-year longitudinal study (Representations, Oral Language and Engagement in Mathematics (RoleM)) had on teachers and students from 16 schools in disadvantaged contexts.

This book focuses on the National College Entrance Exam (NCEE), an important measurement of education quality in China, from both education economics and education policy perspectives.

This book discusses comprehensively the use of Flipped Classrooms in the context of legal education.

This is the first book covering original information on the mathematical science of such the artifacts as 3M&I-body system, in which "e;3M"e; means human, material/machine, money, and "e;I"e; means the information/method in nature versus artifacts.

This book focuses on learning and teaching as the core business ofhigher education and explores reformative efforts in response to the influencesof globalised processes in three advanced economies in the Asia-Pacific region:Japan, Hong Kong and Australia.

China's rise, an increasing emphasis on international education benchmarking, and a global recognition of East Asian countries' success in this regard have brought the issue of Chinese education to the forefront of public consciousness.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of 'out of school' ethnic minority young people in Hong Kong.