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.
Deciphering Chinese School Leadership: Conceptualisation, Context and Complexities
1st Edition
By Allan Walker, Haiyan Qian
March 21, 2019
With existing educational leadership models and theories being predominantly western influenced, this book aims to provide more insight into school leadership in China. It pioneers building research- and practice-informed knowledge and unravels the complexities that characterize the scholarship, ...
Teacher Empowerment and Cultural Context: The Case of Brunei Darussalam
1st Edition
By Shanthi Thomas
March 21, 2019
Teacher empowerment is a psychological and socio-structural motivational process that enhances teacher performance and self-expression. The current conceptualisations of Teacher Empowerment, available in extant literature, have been constructed in an Anglo-Saxon, western cultural context. There ...
Developing Distributed Curriculum Leadership in Hong Kong Schools
1st Edition
By Edmond Law
January 23, 2019
The book aims to explore distributed leadership in developing curriculum innovations in schools with a target of bringing about theoretical underpinnings in the West with the empirical studies and practices in the East. It examines theoretically the roots of the curriculum leadership studies and ...
From Citizenship Education to National Education: Perceptions of National Identity and National Education of Hong Kong’s Secondary School Teachers
1st Edition
By King Man Eric Chong
January 23, 2019
This book makes a timely contribution to understanding perceptions on national identity and National Education, with both of them have become controversial topics in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China. In a so-called globalization era, national identity and National Education, ...
School Counselling in a Chinese Context: Supporting Students in Need in Hong Kong
1st Edition
Edited
By Ming Tak Hue
July 30, 2018
School Counselling in a Chinese Context discusses research in school counselling in the Chinese context of Hong Kong schools and various educational settings, and provides a contextualized understanding of counselling issues. This book highlights key contextual conditions for counselling in Hong ...
Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment in Japan: Beyond lesson study
1st Edition
By Koji Tanaka, Kanae Nishioka, Terumasa Ishii
May 11, 2018
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the history and current status of policy, research and practices of curriculum, classroom instruction and assessment in Japan. It outlines the mechanism of curriculum organization and the history of the National Courses of Study, and assesses the ...
Asia Literate Schooling in the Asian Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Christine Halse
February 12, 2018
Globalization, migration, transnational movements and the development of the tiger economies of Asia have led education leaders and policy makers around the world but particularly in Australia, the USA, Canada, and New Zealand to view schools as key sites for developing ‘globally competent’, ‘Asia ...
Teacher Evaluation Policies and Practices in Japan: How performativity works in schools
1st Edition
By Masaaki Katsuno
December 18, 2017
This book explores the impacts of the introduction of new teacher evaluation policies on teachers and head teachers in Japan, particularly that of producing and reinforcing mutual policing relations among teachers and the destabilisation of their identities. It is timely given the big surge of ...
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 ...