Routledge Series on Schools and Schooling in Asia
About the Book Series
The purpose of this series is to provide a comprehensive coverage of schooling issues in
Asia and a platform for exploring educational futures in the region. It also aims to:
• Locate schools in the broader social, political, economic and cultural contexts that
construct them.
• Investigate the ways schools cater for all groups of students, and in particular
disadvantaged groups, in the quest for equality of opportunity.
• Investigate the distinctive qualities of schools in Asia and the relationship of these
qualities to schooling outcomes.
• Highlight comparative issues in schooling across East-West divides including cultures,
digital technologies, socioeconomic well being and development trajectories of different
countries.
Becoming and Being a Moral-Political Education Teacher: Exploring Chinese Teachers' Experiences, 1978-2018
1st Edition
By Huaxin Yang
June 09, 2026
Providing authentic insights into the “China model” of citizenship education, this book draws on lived experiences to offer an exploration into the professional lives of Chinese moral-political education teachers between 1978 and 2018. Rooted in Confucian philosophical and ethical frameworks shared...
Management and Leadership for Diversity and Inclusion in Hong Kong Schools: Bridging Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Ming-Tak Hue
April 30, 2026
This book examines management and leadership for the promotion of inclusion as well as the catering for diversity, with the provision of cases on supporting students with special educational needs (SEN). Drawing from the literature of local and international studies, this book fuses theory, policy,...
School Counselling in East and South-East Asia: Challenges and Opportunities
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark G. Harrison, Queenie A. Y. Lee, James L. H. Yu
January 30, 2026
This book explores trends in the practice of school counselling in East and Southeast Asia in response to socioeconomic changes, developments in education and schooling, the growth of technology, and the legacy of the recent COVID-19 pandemic. The volume adopts an ecological perspective, taking ...
Enacting Moral Education in Japan: Between State Policy and School Practice
1st Edition
By Sam Bamkin
May 06, 2025
Drawing on the case of moral education reform, this book provides an authoritative picture of how policy is enacted between state policymaking and school practice in Japan, focusing on how national policy is enacted locally in the classroom. The study follows the 2015 moral education reform from ...
Cross-disciplinary STEM Learning for Asian Primary Students: Design, Practices, and Outcomes
1st Edition
Edited
By Winnie Wing Mui So, Zhi Hong Wan, Tian Luo
April 14, 2025
Given the importance of student learning in the various types and integration of STEM education, this book provides a landscape of cross-disciplinary STEM learning in Asian primary schools, and a systematic overview of design, practices, and outcomes of STEM learning implementation. Science, ...
The International Baccalaureate in Asia: Navigating a Changing Landscape
1st Edition
By Moosung Lee, Ewan Wright, Allan Walker
December 31, 2024
Drawing on extensive scholarly work, datasets, and experience with International Baccalaureate (IB) schools in Asia, this book illuminates contemporary debates, discussions, and discoveries surrounding IB schools in the region. Schools adopting IB programmes are growing exponentially worldwide, ...
Curriculum Innovation in East Asian Schools: Contexts, Innovations and Impacts
1st Edition
Edited
By Huixuan Xu
November 12, 2024
Following closely behind the global pandemic’s recent forced challenges to schools and teachers, Xu gives an overview of how educational researchers and schools in Asia respond to challenges in times of change. Her research focuses on how they adjust or change curriculum policy and practice to find...
A Chinese Perspective on Teaching and Learning
1st Edition
Edited
By Betty C. Eng
October 14, 2024
Bringing together educators from a range of backgrounds - psychology, sociology, social work, counseling, and teaching - this volume shows how Asian cultural values and beliefs can provide a lens through which to understand and envision how curriculum and pedagogy can be creatively adapted, ...
Citizenship Education in China: Preparing Citizens for the "Chinese Century"
1st Edition
Edited
By Kerry J. Kennedy, Gregory Fairbrother, Zhenzhou Zhao
October 14, 2024
There is a flourishing literature on citizenship education in China that is mostly unknown in the West. Liberal political theorists often assume that only in democracy should citizens be prepared for their future responsibilities, yet citizenship education in China has undergone a number of ...
Language, Culture, and Identity among Minority Students in China: The Case of the Hui
1st Edition
By Yuxiang Wang
October 14, 2024
This book explores Hui (one of the Muslim minority groups in China) students’ lived experiences in an elementary school in central P. R. China from the perspectives of philosophical foundations of education and the sociology of education, the impact of their experiences on their identity ...
Minority Students in East Asia: Government Policies, School Practices and Teacher Responses
1st Edition
Edited
By JoAnn Phillion, Ming Tak Hue, Yuxiang Wang
October 14, 2024
In Minority Students in East Asia: Government Policies, School Practices and Teacher Responses authors discuss their research on minority students’ schooling (elementary to higher education) in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Minority students’ educational issues are ...
Educating Teachers Online in Challenging Times: The Case of Hong Kong
1st Edition
Edited
By Kevin Wai Ho Yung, Hui Xuan Xu
October 09, 2024
This edited collection documents the challenges experienced by teacher educators, in-service teachers and student teachers in Hong Kong triggered by protests, civil unrest and the global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, and identifies innovative practices in curriculum, pedagogy and assessment ...