Bücher der Reihe Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects

This book examines issues in alternative and mainstream education systems. It presents not only alternative forms of education facing actual issues in societies but also legal and administrative features of education.

This book highlights recent education research on Japan based on sociological and other related approaches to historical developments and accomplishments. It may help sociologists and social scientists outside Japan gain a deeper understanding of ongoing changes in education in Japan as well as its historical and structural contexts.

This book provides a comprehensive and in-depth description of the education system in Lao PDR. It covers pre-school, primary, secondary general, secondary technical and vocational, post-secondary non-higher education, and adult non-formal education and training.

This book highlights recent education research on Japan based on sociological and other related approaches to historical developments and accomplishments. It may help sociologists and social scientists outside Japan gain a deeper understanding of ongoing changes in education in Japan as well as its historical and structural contexts.

This comprehensive book covers each level of education, such as higher and vocational/technical education, and such topics as internationalization, inequalities and disparities, alternative education, non-formal and informal education, multilingual education, educational policy and planning, and educational assessment.

This book covers the mobility of international students in the Asia Pacific, in the context of the global economy, a competitive trans-national education market, and post-September 11 insecurity. Shows how mobility promotes connection and global citizenship.

Korean Education in Changing Economic and Demographic Contexts

The book analyses the knowledge, beliefs and behaviours that comprise the environmental attitudes of young people in the Asia-Pacific region and the cultural, political and educational contexts that have shaped them.

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. This monograph consists of 10 chapters written by various internationally renowned researchers and scholar-practitioners in the field.

This book develops a theory and practice of education from Karl Popper's non-justificationist philosophy for promoting an open society, taking the form of an educational program for fostering critical thinking in children, especially in group discussion.

This book attempts to describe the underlying axioms of test theory, and, in particular, the concepts of objective measurement and the Rasch model, and then link theory to practice.

Based on research and the author's two-months of personal observation, this book offers a close-up view of the people and the policies that have led to Shanghai's world-class educational performance. Includes detailed tables, sample forms and many photos.

Using Hong Kong as a case study, this book discusses teachers' identities and life choices when globalisation and localisation are enmeshed, showing how competing cultural traditions and contexts act as resources or constraints in framing their identities.

Due to the development of the international Education for All and Education for Sustainable Development movements, for which UNESCO is the lead agency, there has been an increasing emphasis on the power of education and schooling to help build more just and equitable societies.

Everyday knowledge offers opportunities for better understanding of significant issues of our times. The underpinning argument is that our instinctive urge for survival may not be enough if we do not share our collective knowledge and learn more about the everyday habits, beliefs and actions of communities spread across the region.

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. This monograph consists of 10 chapters written by various internationally renowned researchers and scholar-practitioners in the field.

This book examines child-centered education in contemporary Indian policy. Drawing on research conducted in the Indian state of Karnataka, the book offers a multi-level analysis of international, national and state education practices of pedagogic reform.

Yasushi Hirosato and Yuto Kitamura Developing countries, including Southeast Asian countries, face an enormous challenge in ensuring equitable access to quality education in the context of deepening globalization and increasing international competition.

Written by leaders in a wide range of creative fields and from all corners of the Asian region, this collection of essays presents arts and education programs which reflect traditional and contemporary practices.

It is an approach to assessment that acknowledges the centrality of self-directed learning and which positions assessment as a tool to enable and enhance self-directed learning.

This book explores the value that Asian countries place on test-based curriculum and its effects on teaching learning and the lives of young people. Describes the challenge of developing new approaches focused on the needs of students and not on exam results.

This book discusses the recent assessment movements in the eastern and western worlds with particular focuses on the policies, implementation, and impacts of assessment reform on education.

This book provides useful strategies to effectively design student-centred learning practices, particularly cooperative learning, in Asian countries with Confucian heritage culture (CHC), such as China, Vietnam, Singapore, Korea and Japan.

It is an approach to assessment that acknowledges the centrality of self-directed learning and which positions assessment as a tool to enable and enhance self-directed learning.