Education - Comparative

Chapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Redefining the Role of the University and the Social Sciences Within the Emergent Structures of Society 5.0Chapter 3. STEAM education in the case of engineering (Empowerment Informatics - Tsukuba University, Japan) and the art studies Chapter 4. Cultivating Future Competencies...

This book investigates the international school policy reform in China from various perspectives. In recent years, international schools, international classes, international departments, and various international education projects have emerged in the field of education in China. This book explores and analyzes the idea of...

This book explores the integral role that student affairs professionals play in the success of international students at higher education institutions in the US. International student support has often been thought of as the principal responsibility of international student services offices, but research suggests...

The first book to investigate the principles and methods of academic achievement assessmentPioneers the discussion on the philosophical basis of academic achievement assessmentExplores the objective system, proposition technology, questionnaire design and implementation of academic achievement assessmentCarries out a comprehensive comparison of the academic achievement...

Author: Peter LiljedahlISBN-10: 3030104710ISBN-13: 9783030104719Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/21/2019Pages: 362Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 9.40h x 8.30w x 0.90d

This edited collection brings together the work of researchers and educators from Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Colombia, Costa Rica, Portugal, and Mexico on education, pedagogy, and research from a queer perspective. It offers a space for the dissemination and development of new lines of analysis...

1. Anadi2. Anitya3. Jian'ai4. Ilm5. ShoshinAuthor: Kalyani UnkuleISBN-10: 3030281140ISBN-13: 9783030281144Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/08/2020Pages: 154Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.35dAbout the AuthorKalyani Unkule is Associate Professor and Director of International Affairs and Global Initiatives at O.P. Jindal Global University, India, where she...

This comprehensive study of the Japanese education system follows the Japanese child from the kindergarten, through the progressively more arduous and competitive environments of the elementary, middle and high schools, to the relative relaxation, even hedonism, of university life. Drawing on numerous surveys and...

Explores the rich potential of Confucianism in American and Chinese classrooms of the twenty-first century.Author: Xiufeng LiuISBN-10: 1438470029ISBN-13: 9781438470023Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/02/2019Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70dAbout the AuthorXiufeng Liu is Director of the Center for...

This open access book presents a systematic investigation into internationally comparable data gathered in ICILS 2013. It identifies differences in female and male students' use of, perceptions about, and proficiency in using computer technologies. Teachers' use of computers, and their perceptions regarding the benefits...

This peer-reviewed academic yearbook stems from the inaugural meeting of the newly formed UNESCO UNITWIN network on Arts Education Research for Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development, held at the National Institute of Education, Singapore in April 2017. It presents international scholarly perspectives on issues...

Offering contributions from international leaders in the field, this volume builds on empirically informed meta-analyses to foreground relationship-based aspects of parental involvement in children's education and learning. Author: William JeynesISBN-10: 0367652250ISBN-13: 9780367652258Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/29/2024Pages: 356Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.78dAbout the...

Providing a window on educational leadership from an Asian cultural perspective, Liu and Thien's edited collection describes how educational leadership is linked with national culture in the context of different Asian countries. While much of the scholarship on this topic has been built on...

Author: Judyth SachsISBN-10: 981100997XISBN-13: 9789811009976Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/19/2016Pages: 319Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.75lbsSize: 9.53h x 6.31w x 0.92dAbout the AuthorProfessor Judyth Sachs has recently stepped down as Deputy Vice Chancellor and Provost at Macquarie University, a position she held from December 2006, to take up a...

Rooted in an international political economy theoretical framework, this book provides unique insights into the global forces and local responses that are shaping education systems in Central America and the Latin Caribbean (CALC). The book covers all Spanish-speaking countries of the CALC region and...

This book examines four theses regarding Asian higher education and development: interplay between cultural traditions, economic development, globalization, and the evolution of the 'hybrid' university. Top scholars evaluate these hypotheses and determine the elements shaping the history and present circumstances of Asia-Pacific higher education.Author:...

Since 2013, the Annual Review of Comparative and International Education has covered significant developments in the intersecting fields of comparative education, international education, and comparative and international education. Reflecting on ten prolific years of publication, both volumes of the 2022 Annual Review together present...

This book explores the lives, experiences and the formation of higher educational aspirations among marginalised migrant youth in South Africa. Using a case study based in Johannesburg, the author illuminates their voices in order to demonstrate the reality faced by these young people in...

Claudia Diaz-Rios is Assistant Professor in the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at the University of Toronto.Author: Claudia Diaz-RiosISBN-10: 1438497261ISBN-13: 9781438497266Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2024Pages: 268Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

This book examines the relationship between Fado and Juju music of Portuguese and Nigeria respectively. This is done in order to examine the roles of these genres of music in their respective communities. Efforts are made in evaluating as well as comparing the inter-relationship...

Now in its fourth edition, Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local remains the same groundbreaking book when it first debuted its collection of outstanding scholars in examining the changing transnational landscape of education. With the addition of new coeditor Stephen...

This book provides robust insights into the current policies, trends, challenges and possibilities in the internationalisation of higher education in East and Southeast Asian countries, revealing emergent and new models and practices in this area.Author: Ly Thi TranISBN-10: 1032004215ISBN-13: 9781032004211Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/22/2023Pages: 282Format:...

This edited book draws on an international cohort of authors, all working towards sustainable, decolonizing human development for more just futures in a variety of learning spaces. Integrating sustainable human development with 'reparative futures', the chapters present diverse examples of how transformative learning spaces...

Learning in Morocco offers a rare look inside public education in the Middle East. While policymakers see a crisis in education based on demographics and financing, Moroccan high school students point to the effects of a highly politicized Arabization policy that has never been...

Drawing on a post-foundational approach to Deleuze and Guattari's seminal work on assemblage theory, this book explores the scholarly field of comparative and international education (CIE). Written by a diverse collection of international scholars from Australia, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, the...

Explores how American youth are indoctrinated with Zionist mythology and how to intervene in that process by teaching about Palestine. It argues that as the relationship between Zionist education and the Israel lobby continues to be strong, it is necessary to correct the misrepresentations...

1. Introduction: Historical Trajectories of Education and Development in (Post)Colonial Africa2. Welfare and Education in British Colonial Africa, 1918-19453. "Une aventure sociale et humaine" The Services des Centres Sociaux in Algeria, 1955-19624. Education through labour: from the deuxieme portion du contingent to the youth...

The Springer International Handbook of Educational Development in Asia Pacific breaks new ground with a comprehensive, fine-grained and diverse perspective on research and education development throughout the Asia Pacific region. In 13 sections and 127 chapters, the Handbook delves into a wide spectrum of...

This book maps globally shifting relations between families, schools and the state across a range of nations (Australia, Germany, India, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, USA) in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It was originally published as a special issue of Comparative Education. Author:...

Access, attainment and success of Roma people in education and lifelong learning is one of the most urgent public policy issues in Europe. According to empirical data Roma people are the most underrepresented group in schools and other educational institutions. Lifelong Learning and the...

PLAN OF THE STUDYThe study is divided into five chapters: The First Chapter describes the Historical perspective of the Dalit, Social introduction of the Musahar, Present day social status of the Musahar and plan of the study. The Chapter Second Reviews the literature on...

This study on the transplantation of institutions explores why and how the Eastern Regional Government of Nigeria in 1955, decided to found a novel type of institution of higher learning that would provide its youth with better education by developing their talent, improving their...

Exploring Cuba: Erasing Fears Through Multicultural Education details the cultural and professional exchanges to Cuba organized by the National Association of Multicultural Education (NAME) between 2015 and 2019, with additional reflections on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Cuba-U.S. relations.Author: Bette Tate-Beaver, Lewis...

Akihiro Ogawa is Professor of Japanese Studies at the Asia Institute, the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of The Failure of Civil Society? The Third Sector and the State in Contemporary Japan, also published by SUNY Press.Author: Akihiro OgawaISBN-10: 1438457863ISBN-13: 9781438457864Publisher:...

This book provides a developing country perspective on the internationalization of science and the role of Science, Technology and Innovation Diplomacy (STID) in leveraging scientific cooperation for sustainable development. In articles by individuals from government departments and academic & research institutions in nine developing...

This book deepens our understanding of how higher education governance has recently changed in the rapidly developing higher education systems of East Asia. Focusing on China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia and Taiwan, it explains the implications of how state-centered political systems interpret political and economic...

This book explores the issue of graduate employability in regional Vietnam. It provides a critical discussion of not only the demands of the labour market but also the practices and challenges in the development of graduate employability and career capacity building at the national,...

This peer-reviewed academic yearbook stems from the inaugural meeting of the newly formed UNESCO UNITWIN network on Arts Education Research for Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development, held at the National Institute of Education, Singapore in April 2017. It presents international scholarly perspectives on issues...

Tawassul is the very heart of Islam and the shahada contains a declaration of belief in tawassul. To ask help from Holy Prophet, family members of last Prophet and 'Awliya-Allah' is permissibe, provided the belief in heart is that real help and judge is...

Advanced education is often thought to respond to the demands of the economy. Market forces create new occupations, and then universities respond with degrees and curricula tailored to produce graduates with the required skills. Presented here is ground-breaking comparative research on an underappreciated, yet...

In response to the explosion of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in March 2011, this book examines how the concept of a risk society was handled in the various education programs implemented in post-disaster Fukushima.The explosion and subsequent radiation contamination that affected the biosphere...

This proposed book will be part of the new international series Educating the Young Child. It will focus on transitions that young children make to early care and education settings, along with the issues that surround this very important time in their lives. The...

As the first book to explore the confluence of three emerging yet critical fields of study, this work sets an exacting standard. The editors' aim was to produce the most authoritative guide for ecojustice, place-based education, and indigenous knowledge in education. Aimed at a...

Research, Development, and Innovation in Asia Pacific Higher Education critically examines recent policies and practices adopted by governments and universities in Asia Pacific in promoting research and development, innovation, and entrepreneurial activities between the universities, industry and business. Critical reflections upon the changing relationship...

This book explains the rationale of the changes and challenges of Taiwanese citizenship which emphasizes the various identities in the global and multicultural era. It explores the evolving relationship between the social movements, citizenship, the education of citizens and the young peoples' viewpoints, asking...

This open access book takes a critical and international perspective to the mainstreaming of the Global Citizenship Concept and analyses the key issues regarding global citizenship education across the world. In that respect, it addresses a pressing need to provide further conceptual input and...

This book analyses the role of the university in working towards the Sustainable Development Goals. In contrast to the previous Millennium Development Goals, higher education is seen to have a crucial role in this new agenda. Yet how can the university fulfil these weighty...

This volume offers a remarkable collection of theoretically and practically grounded conversations with internationally recognized scholars, who share their perspectives on Global Citizenship Education (GCE) in relation to university research, teaching, and learning. Conversations on Global Citizenship Education brings together the narratives of a...

This book consists of stories of struggles in science education presented by a network of science educators working in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Britain, and the United States. The common goal of these educators is to produce more socially/ecologically just models and practices of science...

Author: Lukasz TomczykISBN-10: 981191740XISBN-13: 9789811917400Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/28/2023Pages: 586Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.81lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.21d