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Routledge Studies in Educational History and Development in Asia

About the Book Series

The books in this series will examine the history of education in the different countries of Asia. Themes in these studies will include, but are not confined to, the role of education in colonialism, the relationship between education and economic development, as well as education’s connections with identity, gender, ethnicity, citizenship, and nation-building. Studies will include works on the history of educational developments within one Asian country and works that are historical studies in comparative education.

5 Series Titles


Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander School Teachers and Australian Settler Colonialism A History

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander School Teachers and Australian Settler Colonialism: A History

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Kay Whitehead
September 11, 2025

This book addresses the gap in our historical knowledge about the roles Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teachers have played in Australia's history of school education. To date, there are few references to schooling in histories of Indigenous Australians, and Australian histories of ...

Women and Educational Reform in History Japan in a Transnational World

Women and Educational Reform in History: Japan in a Transnational World

1st Edition

Edited By Joyce Goodman, Setsuko Kagawa
June 27, 2025

This unique collection provides critical analyses of Japanese educational history by bringing together gender, transnational, and transcultural perspectives. It illustrates how Japanese, European, and American women educators transcended national borders in seeking to reform and re-shape Japanese ...

Indonesian Education Past, Present, and Future

Indonesian Education: Past, Present, and Future

1st Edition

By I Gusti Ngurah Darmawan, Ace Suryadi, Dasim Budimansyah, Susilo Susilo
November 29, 2024

Offering an overview of the history, perspectives, and developments of education in Indonesia since the country’s independence in 1945, in this book, the authors raise awareness of education's impact on national development in this unique context. With more than 50 million students, 3 million ...

Reforming Literature Education in Malaysia 1957 – 2020 Development of Post-secondary Literature in English

Reforming Literature Education in Malaysia 1957 – 2020: Development of Post-secondary Literature in English

1st Edition

By Jia Wei Lim
August 12, 2024

Lim traces the complexities in construction and implementation of a school subject, namely Literature in English in Malaysia through a focused and grounded narrative where tensions regarding identity, reader response and conceptualisations about literature play out in a postcolonial context. The ...

Rebuilding the Education Sector in East Timor during UNTAET International Collaboration and Timorese Agency

Rebuilding the Education Sector in East Timor during UNTAET: International Collaboration and Timorese Agency

1st Edition

By Trina Supit
May 06, 2022

This original volume examines the collaboration between East Timorese and international staff in the rebuilding of the education sector during the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) 1999-2002. Using interviews, contemporary newspaper articles and reports from UN ...

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