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Teachers' Identities and Life Choices
This book discusses issues related to teachers’ identities and life choices when globalisation and localisation are enmeshed. It examines how competing cultural traditions and …

Education as Cultivation in Chinese Culture
Given the increasing global interest in Chinese culture, this book uses case studies to describe and interpret Chinese cultivation in contemporary Taiwanese schools. Cultivation is …

Internationalization of Higher Education
This book reviews and analyses the issues and policies of internationalization and exportation of higher education and investigates the strategies and models of education hub …

Asian Migrants and Education
education is and what its functions should be. As Thomas explains, migrant communities need a culture-sensitive education, that is, an education that can both accommodate their …

Educating in the Arts
When I was first asked to edit this book, the researcher in me delighted at the opportunity to provide case studies from different cultural traditions with a team of like-minded …

Literacy and Language in East Asia
This book critically explores why some Asian nations are on top of the world in students’ achievement tests in reading and literacy, yet governments and industry in these nations …

Engaging in Educational Research
This book reflects the paradigm shift now manifesting in Bangladesh’s education system by highlighting recent empirical research. It shares essential insights by presenting …

Alternative Education
Alternative streams of education have been and remain an important but difficult theme for teachers, parents, policy-makers, and scholars. By focusing on case studies of six …

Active Ageing, Active Learning
This book is concerned with the general issues of ageing, learning and education for the elderly and then with the more specific issues of why, how and what elders want to learn. …

Higher Education and Belief Systems in the Asia Pacific Region
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. It …

Childhood, Philosophy and Open Society
?The purpose of this book is to develop a theory and practice of education from Karl Popper’s non-justificationist philosophy for promoting an open society. Specifically, the book …

Transitions to Post-School Life
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 …