Asian Education

This reissue (1986) is a comprehensive annotated bibliography of the most useful books, monographs, pamphlets, regularly and occasionally issued serials, scholarly papers, and selected newspaper accounts dealing in a significant way with formal and informal, public and private education in the Peopl..

With a specific focus on higher education, European Studies in Asia investigates knowledge transfer and channels of knowledge between Europe and Asia from historical, contemporary, and teaching perspectives. The book examines the historical precedents of intellectual dialogue between the two regions..

With a specific focus on higher education, European Studies in Asia investigates knowledge transfer and channels of knowledge between Europe and Asia from historical, contemporary, and teaching perspectives. The book examines the historical precedents of intellectual dialogue between the two regions..

This book charts Sri Lanka’s shift from an agricultural economy to one dominated by services and manufacturing, a reduction in unemployment, rising educational and occupational expectations and achievements and a reduction in poverty. In turn, it reveals a growing role for the private sector and for..

This book charts Sri Lanka’s shift from an agricultural economy to one dominated by services and manufacturing, a reduction in unemployment, rising educational and occupational expectations and achievements and a reduction in poverty. In turn, it reveals a growing role for the private sector and for..

This book focuses on the universalization of upper secondary school, using it as a vantage point to understand the foundations of regional economic development. It covers each of the countries in East Asia, tracing how upper secondary schools supported the mass manufacturing labor force instrumental..

_x005F_x000D_ This book analyses the portrayal of Japan in the societies of East and Southeast Asia, and asks how and why this has changed in recent decades, and what these changing images of Japan reveal about the ways in which these societies construct their own identities. It examines the role pl..

The book explores the nature of the Islamic education systems in Indonesia and Malaysia and the different approaches taken by these states in managing these systems...

People in many polities gradually have come to believe that their children could be guaranteed better economic opportunities if they had English as part of their linguistic repertoire spurring the addition of English to the school curriculum at an earlier and earlier age. However, early instruction ..

People in many polities gradually have come to believe that their children could be guaranteed better economic opportunities if they had English as part of their linguistic repertoire spurring the addition of English to the school curriculum at an earlier and earlier age. However, early instruction ..

This book examines how parents in rural China engage strategies to support their children’s education that are largely invisible in the discussion of parental participation. It provides insights into how rural parents envision their role with their children, schools and larger society, and how these..

Like many countries around the world, China has been implementing policies aimed at improving parent-school relationships, but unlike many developed countries the historical context of family-school relationships has been limited and parents typically do not participate in the school context. This b..