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Reference Books In International Education

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Hegemonies Compared State Formation and Chinese School Politics in Postwar Singapore and Hong Kong

Hegemonies Compared: State Formation and Chinese School Politics in Postwar Singapore and Hong Kong

1st Edition

By Ting-Hong Wong
April 27, 2016

This book explores the impact of cultural identity, the internal configurations of the educational field, and the struggles both inside and outside the educational systems of post-World War II Singapore and Hong Kong. By comparing the school politics of these two nations, Wong generates a theory ...

Politics of Educational Innovations in Developing Countries An Analysis of Knowledge and Power

Politics of Educational Innovations in Developing Countries: An Analysis of Knowledge and Power

1st Edition

Edited By Nelly P. Stromquist, Nelly P. Stromquist, Michael L. Basile, Michael L. Basile
April 27, 2016

In the educational arena, new ideas often compete as solutions to recurrent problems, making the concept of "innovations" a widespread discursive term. While expectations are substantial for each innovation, implementation of ideas has shown them to be more modest in practice. This book examines ...

Education, Cultures, and Economics Dilemmas for Development

Education, Cultures, and Economics: Dilemmas for Development

1st Edition

Edited By Angela W. Little, Fiona E. Leach
February 29, 2016

This edited volume reviews the conflict between economic prescriptions for improved education in the developing world and local cultures. Among the issues reviewed are: conceptions of culture and economics in development and education literature, economic considerations of school systems to promote...

Politics of Classroom Life Classroom Management in International Perspective

Politics of Classroom Life: Classroom Management in International Perspective

1st Edition

Edited By Nobuo K. Shimahara
February 29, 2016

The growing economic competition among the world's industrialized and developing nations has spurred comparisons and examinations of national school systems. An important aspect of any school system is school and classroom management, which is an indicator of the ultimate goals that a nation has ...

The Ethnographic Eye Interpretive Studies of Education in China

The Ethnographic Eye: Interpretive Studies of Education in China

1st Edition

Edited By Heidi Ross, Judith Liu, Donald P. Kelly
January 20, 2016

First Published in 2000. This book, a collection of ethnographic studies of Chinese schooling, aims to take the reader into Chinese schools and provide a picture of students and teachers as actors who practice culture. The case studies also provide a means by which ethnography is explored as a ...

History Education and National Identity in East Asia

History Education and National Identity in East Asia

1st Edition

Edited By Edward Vickers
December 18, 2015

Visions of the past are crucual to the way that any community imagines itself and constructs its identity. This edited volume contains the first significant studies of the politics of history education in East Asian societies....

Three Decades of Peace Education around the World An Anthology

Three Decades of Peace Education around the World: An Anthology

1st Edition

Edited By Robin J. Burns, Robin J. Burns, Robert Aspeslagh, Robert Aspeslagh
December 18, 2015

First Published in 1996. The current world order poses new challenges to the theory and practice of peace education. Drawing on data gathered from around the world, Burns and Aspeslagh focus on how peace is presented in formal and informal educational settings and what effects ideologies have in ...

China's National Minority Education Culture, Schooling, and Development

China's National Minority Education: Culture, Schooling, and Development

1st Edition

Edited By Gerard A. Postiglione
December 07, 2015

This volume focuses on policies and practices in the education of China's national minorities with the purpose of assessing the goals and impact of state sponsored education for China's non-Han people's. The essays in the four sections of this book examine cultural challenges to state schooling, ...

Japanese Model of Schooling Comparisons with the U.S.

Japanese Model of Schooling: Comparisons with the U.S.

1st Edition

By Ryoko Tsuneyoshi
November 27, 2015

In this book, Dr. Tsuneyoshi observes the educational approach of two nations, one most often cited as being the home of rugged individualism, and the champion of the free market, the other more often cited as being the most groupist amongst the industrialized societies, known for strong central ...

Inside Japanese Classrooms The Heart of Education

Inside Japanese Classrooms: The Heart of Education

1st Edition

By Nancy Sato
May 07, 2015

This detailed ethnographic study of fifth- and sixth-grade classrooms offers new insights into Japanese culture, as many aspects of daily social life are embedded in the educational system. Additionally, this book provides new perspectives on educational reform in the U.S., since many current ...

Learning through Collaborative Research The Six Nation Education Research Project

Learning through Collaborative Research: The Six Nation Education Research Project

1st Edition

Edited By Noel F. McGinn
September 03, 2013

This book covers the seven-year project involving China, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland, and the US, to show how collaborative research can help expand worldwide knowledge of education....

Qualitative Educational Research in Developing Countries Current Perspectives

Qualitative Educational Research in Developing Countries: Current Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By Michael Crossley, Graham Vulliamy
March 14, 2011

This collection of 11 original in-depth accounts of qualitative research and evaluation in developing countries argues that such innovative methods offer considerable advantages over traditional methods. With examples drawn from Asia, Africa, the South Pacific, Central America and the Caribbean, ...

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