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Télécharger le livre :  Literacy and Language in East Asia
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Literacy and Language in East Asia


Marilyn Kell , Peter Kell


This book critically explores why some Asian nations are on top of the world in students’ achievement tests in reading and literacy, yet governments and industry in these nations are anxious about a crisis in education. Why are governments anxious about the capabilities...

Parution : 2013-08-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Childhood, Philosophy and Open Society
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Childhood, Philosophy and Open Society


Chi-Ming Lam


?The purpose of this book is to develop a theory and practice of education from Karl Popper’s non-justificationist philosophy for promoting an open society. Specifically, the book is designed to develop an educational programme for fostering critical thinking in...

Parution : 2013-02-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Achieving Quality Education for All
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Achieving Quality Education for All


Phillip Hughes


Due to the development of the international Education for All and Education for Sustainable Development movements, for which UNESCO is the lead agency, there has been an increasing emphasis on the power of education and schooling to help build more just and equitable...

Parution : 2012-11-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Teachers' Identities and Life Choices
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Teachers' Identities and Life Choices


Pattie Luk-Fong


This book discusses issues related to teachers’ identities and life choices when globalisation and localisation are enmeshed. It examines how competing cultural traditions and contexts acted as resources or/and constraints in framing teachers’ identities and their...

Parution : 2012-11-08
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Télécharger le livre :  International Students in the Asia Pacific
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International Students in the Asia Pacific


Peter Kell , Gillian Vogl


This book documents the growing mobility of international students in the Asia Pacific. International students comprise over 2.7m students and it is estimated by the OECD that this will top 8 million in 2020. The great majority of them are students from the Asian...

Parution : 2012-02-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Pedagogies for Development
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Pedagogies for Development


Arathi Sriprakash


Pedagogies for Development takes a sociological approach to examine the introduction of child-centred education in contemporary Indian policy and school contexts. It investigates the promise of democratic learning in development discourses to ask how far child-centred...

Parution : 2012-01-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Active Ageing, Active Learning
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Active Ageing, Active Learning


Gillian Boulton-Lewis , Maureen Tam


This book is concerned with the general issues of ageing, learning and education for the elderly and then with the more specific issues of why, how and what elders want to learn.This monograph consists of 10 chapters written by various internationally renowned...

Parution : 2011-09-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Assessment Reform in Education
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Assessment Reform in Education


Bob Adamson , Rita Berry


This book discusses the recent assessment movements in the eastern and western worlds with particular focuses on the policies, implementation, and impacts of assessment reform on education. A new perspective of assessment sees assessment as a means to enhance...

Parution : 2011-04-07
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Télécharger le livre :  The Political Economy of Educational Reforms and Capacity Development in Southeast Asia
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The Political Economy of Educational Reforms and Capacity Development in Southeast Asia


Yasushi Hirosato , Yuto Kitamura


Yasushi Hirosato and Yuto Kitamura Developing countries, including Southeast Asian countries, face an enormous challenge in ensuring equitable access to quality education in the context of deepening globalization and increasing international competition. They must...

Parution : 2009-02-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Reforming Learning
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Reforming Learning


Clarence Ng , Peter D. Renshaw


In the wake of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, various reform initiatives, policies and programmes have been carried out in different countries within the Asia-Pacific region. All these reform efforts aim to restructure different aspects of schooling in order to...

Parution : 2008-11-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Alternative Education
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Alternative Education


Yoshiyuki Nagata


Alternative streams of education have been and remain an important but difficult theme for teachers, parents, policy-makers, and scholars. By focusing on case studies of six countries (Bolivia, Thailand, Australia, USA, The Netherlands, and Denmark), and by...

Parution : 2007-03-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Educational Decentralization
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Educational Decentralization


Christopher Bjork


Decentralization and Education: Asian Experiences and Conceptual Contributions examines the specific ways in which decentralization policies have affected the structure and delivery of education in eleven Asian nations. Written by top scholars in the field, the case...

Parution : 2007-03-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Secondary Education at the Crossroads
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Secondary Education at the Crossroads


Phillip Hughes


Education is a universal priority. Currently, it is at a crossroad. In every society it is valued as a major road to produce more productive, more harmonious and healthier citizens. Yet, in every setting there is deep dissatisfaction with the overall performance of...

Parution : 2006-09-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Towards a Global Community
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Towards a Global Community


Nick Baikaloff , Jack Campbell , Colin Power


This book is the outcome of a global study undertaken on behalf of the World Education Fellowship (WEF) in collaboration with UNESCO. It provides education policy makers with evidence to support programs that address the major challenges faced by education systems in...

Parution : 2006-07-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Applied Rasch Measurement: A Book of Exemplars
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Applied Rasch Measurement: A Book of Exemplars


Sivakumar Alagumalai , David D. Curtis , Njora Hungi


While the primary purpose of the book is a celebration of John’s contributions to the field of measurement, a second and related purpose is to provide a useful resource. We believe that the combination of the developmental history and theory of the method, the examples...

Parution : 2006-03-30
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Télécharger le livre :  New Paradigm for Re-engineering Education
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New Paradigm for Re-engineering Education


Yin Cheong Cheng


In response to the challenges of globalization and local development, educational reforms are inevitably becoming one of the major trends in the Asia-Pacific Region or other parts of the world. Based on the most recent research and international observations, this book...

Parution : 2006-01-17
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