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Education in Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1056

Education in Asia

Exploring the development of educational provision in the region and contemporary issues, these handbooks cover East, South-East and West Central Asia.

Education in East Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 333

Education in East Asia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-07-18
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

Exploring contemporary issues and challenges facing education in East Asia, including recent reforms and global contexts, from China and Japan to Mongolia and Korea.

Serving Library Users from Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 752

Serving Library Users from Asia

Asian populations are among some of the fastest growing cultural groups in the US. While books on serving other target groups in libraries have been published (e.g., disabled, Latino, seniors, etc.), few books on serving library users of Asian heritage have been written. Thus the timely need for this book. Rather than a generalized overview of Asians as a whole, this book has 24 separate chapters—each on 24 specific Asian countries/cultures of East, Southeast, and South Asia—with a wealth of resources for understanding, interacting with, outreaching to, and serving library users of each culture. Resources include cultural guides (both print and online), language helps (with sample librar...

Education in East and Central Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 387

Education in East and Central Africa

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-06-26
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

Education in East and Central Africa is a comprehensive critical reference guide to education in the region. With chapters written by an international team of leading regional education experts, the book explores the education systems of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Sao Tome, Gabon, the Republic of Congo and Rwanda. The book critically examines the regional development of education provision in each country as well as recent reforms and global contexts. Including a comparative introduction to the issues facing education in the region as a whole and guides to available online datasets, this handbook is an essential reference for researchers, scholars, international agencies and policy-makers at all levels.

Education Around the World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

Education Around the World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-04-11
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

A concise comparative introduction to education in each major geographical region of the world and the major issues in international education today.

Quality Teaching in Primary Science Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 327

Quality Teaching in Primary Science Education

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-10-24
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  • Publisher: Springer

​This edited volume explores how primary school teachers create rich opportunities for science learning, higher order thinking and reasoning, and how the teaching of science in Australia, Germany and Taiwan is culturally framed. It draws from the international and cross-cultural science education study EQUALPRIME: Exploring quality primary education in different cultures: A cross-national study of teaching and learning in primary science classrooms. Video cases of Year 4 science teaching were gathered by research teams based at Edith Cowan University, Deakin University, the Freie Universität Berlin, the National Taiwan Normal University and the National Taipei University of Education. Mee...

Education in South-East Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

Education in South-East Asia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-04-11
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

Exploring contemporary issues and challenges facing education in South-East Asia, this Handbook covers the 10 member states of the ASEAN and Timor-Leste.

Education in North America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Education in North America

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-02-27
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

Education in North America is a concise and thorough reference guide to the main themes in American and Canadian education from their historical roots to the present time. The book brings a global awareness to the discussion of local issues in North American education and sheds light on the similar and different ways that Canada and the United States have moved in light of political and social changes. Scholarly contributions made by active researchers from the region provide an overview of each country's education system, the way in which it arose, and its current state of affairs.

Education in West Central Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 347

Education in West Central Asia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-08-15
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

" ... This book explores the education systems of Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, critically examining the development of education provision in each country as well as local and global contexts"--Cover, page [4].

Education Reform and Social Class in Japan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 242

Education Reform and Social Class in Japan

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This title demonstrates from a sociological point of view and by way of empirical analysis that educational reforms have caused profound changes in the society of post-war Japan. It focuses on the spread of inequality in Japanese society as an 'unintended outcome' to which the educational reforms ended up contributing.