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.
Social Studies Education in East Asian Contexts
1st Edition
Edited
By Kerry J. Kennedy
May 06, 2022
The book explores the state of social studies education within selected East Asian societies and provides some insights into distinctive classroom practices. In an increasingly volatile and unpredictable world, the education of young people who both understand the contexts in which they are...
School Climate Matters: Shanghai Schools from a Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
By Ning Bo
April 29, 2022
This book describes the effect of school climate on student academic achievement. The unexpected leading position of Shanghai in its first and second appearance of the PISA survey—topping every league table in this assessment by a clear margin—attracted attention from all over the world. This book ...
School Reform and Democracy in East Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Masamichi Ueno
April 29, 2022
This book discusses how East Asia has introduced school and curricular reform to reflect democratic citizenship and globalized skills, knowledge, dispositions, and competencies in the 21st century. It also focuses on the tendencies and reasons students from Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan, and ...
Asia's High Performing Education Systems: The Case of Hong Kong
1st Edition
Edited
By Colin Marsh, John Chi-Kin Lee
November 18, 2016
Education officials, specialist leaders and teachers have all been involved in different ways to bring about school reform in Hong Kong. This book is a very current and relevant analysis of this reform, highlighting the way in which agencies have cooperated in bringing about change over the last ...