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An analysis of the socialization of the child in diverse cultures, focusing on parent-child relationships, enculturation, and child development under changing educational conditions. The author examines intersections among patterns of childhood experience, cultural values and institutional change.

The story of a life transformed by the people and culture of China and East Asia. The stories of people in Hong Kong, China and Japan are interwoven into this narrative account, as Ruth Hayhoe shares what it was like to live through a series of major transitions - from the Cultural Revolution in 1967, to Hong Kong's return to China in 1997.

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Globalization has brought dramatic changes to the character of education in most countries around the world. Contextualised in the literature on globalization, this book examines how policies of decentralization have affected the running of education in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and China.

This volume is part of the series "Education in Developing Asia". It examines dimensions and strategies regarding the quality of education.

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The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a project of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) designed to provide policy-oriented international indicators of the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students. This book suggests that the 'lending power' of international studies such as PISA is limited.

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This monograph explores the evolution of parental and community partnerships in education in Hong Kong and Singapore, and the local and global forces that have shaped those partnerships. It focuses on the work of two government advisory bodies established to spearhead partnership advocacy: the Committee on Home-School Co-operation (CHSC) in Hong Kong, and Community and Parents in Support of Schools (COMPASS) in Singapore. Key policy actors and...

This volume focuses on "teachers as learners" and includes chapters by leaders in the field of teacher education and professional development. The contributors explore innovative approaches ot the preparation and continuing professional development of teachers and consider policy issues in a teaching profession that faces new challenges in a changing world. The contributions, including a diverse range of cultural settings and methodological or...

This book responds to the growing unease of educators and non-educators alike about the inadequacy of most current educational systems and programs to meet sufficiently the demands of fast-changing societies. These systems and programs evolved and were developed in and for societies that have long been transformed, and yet no parallel transformation has taken place in the education systems they spawned. In the last 20 years or so, other sector...

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Assesses what we have learnt from research over the decades on school effects, the utility and sustainability of target-setting in education, and the role of global and local forces in shaping change in African education.

This book, which extends pioneering work on Chinese learners in two previous volumes, examines teaching and learning in Chinese societies and advances understanding of 'the Chinese learner' in changing global contexts. Given the burgeoning research in this area, pedagogical shifts from knowledge transmission to knowledge construction to knowledge creation, wide-ranging social, economic and technological advances, and changes in educational pol...

Social changes have made education an important topic for academics, policy makers and practitioners in all parts of the world. This book examines values education in a diverse set of societies. Some are large countries like the USA, while others, like Singapore, are smaller but no less complex.