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Partnership and Change
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 388

Partnership and Change

There has been a dearth of books covering themes and issues related to university-school partnerships and school development from an international perspective, particularly providing examples on university-school partnerships in the Asia-Pacific region.The book is broadly divided into two parts. Part One focuses on university-school partnership while Part Two highlights changes in school development. The nature of different partnerships, as well as the experiences of and research on school development in connection with individual strategies and organizational strategies are described. The contributors are all renowned scholars, school reformers, and experienced practitioners from the United States, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Hong Kong. Together they provide an international perspective on the issues related to school partnerships and development.

Values Education for Citizens in the New Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 400

Values Education for Citizens in the New Century

This book is a collection of papers by international experts in education on the theory and practice of values education in global contexts. Contemporary examples include Australia, the U.K., Hong Kong, Macau, and Thailand.

Forces for Change in Contemporary China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 416

Forces for Change in Contemporary China

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The Work and Lives of Teachers in China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

The Work and Lives of Teachers in China

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-10-30
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  • Publisher: Routledge

By bringing together a distinguished group of scholars who have deep, extensive and complementary knowledge and expertise of the Chinese education system, The Work and Lives of Teachers in China engages in detailed discussions on contemporary issues about teachers and teaching in China. It locates teachers’ work and lives in a critical analysis of the political, socio-cultural, ideological and educational reform contexts, and through this, demonstrates how teachers in different professional life phases and in different schools are able to retain their vocational strength and commitment for learning and development. Using rich illustrations from real teachers in real primary and secondary s...

China Review 1993
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 724

China Review 1993

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Unstately Power
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 800

Unstately Power

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-06-03
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  • Publisher: Routledge

A critique of America's flawed Asia policy that centres on US-Japan relations but harkens back to the same disastrous views that drew America into Vietnam. The technique is a narrative flow of short vignettes woven into longer chapters; the main strands are personal reflections and interviews.

China Review
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 514

China Review

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Evaluation of the C. Y. Leung Administration
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 748

Evaluation of the C. Y. Leung Administration

"Did C. Y. Leung achieve his goals? Did he perform his duty to the Hong Kong people as their third Chief Executive?" To answer these questions, this book presents a rational, research-based critique of the C. Y. Leung Administration (2012 - 2017). It is a sweeping and original publication that covers various aspects of governance, including politics, economics, healthcare, human rights, civil service, housing, urban planning, youth, and Legislative Council elections as well as Hong Kong¡¦s relationships with Taiwan, Mainland China, and Western countries. Written by a team of expert authors from various fields, this book is one of the first comprehensive academic discourses on the issues th...

School Improvement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 424

School Improvement

School improvement is at the centre of educational reform and is perceived by many as a key to social and economic advance. It contributes to determining the personal fulfilment and career paths of individual students and consequently engages the interest of parents and community members. It is an ever-present commitment of teachers and managers in schools. Policy makers and politicians at international, national and local levels devote much time and effort to their search for better schools. School improvement has also attracted the attention of researchers and scholars in many countries. They have been drawn from various disciplines and fields within the educational studies community, incl...

Perspectives on Teaching and Teacher Issues
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

Perspectives on Teaching and Teacher Issues

Teaching is a profession which is so enormous and so packed with significance that the issues related to it have a consistently high ranking with members of society in virtually every public opinion poll. These issues include multicultural education, teacher training and accreditation, burnout, teaching under conditions particular to a world-wide certain country, student behaviour and preparation, computers in the classroom, parental influence on the teaching process, the changing curriculum and its meaning for teaching, budgetary problems, and a multitude of similar issues. This book presents current issues and information in this field from educators and researchers around the globe.