Handbook of Asian education : a cultural perspective / / editor, Yong Zhao ; co-editors, Jing Lei ... [et al].

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Zhao, Yong.; Lei, Jing.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xx, 558 p.

Table of Contents

Cultural overview of education in Sinic civilization Guofang / Li And Ming Fang He -- Educational governance and management in Sinic societies / Nicholas Sun-Keung Pang -- Curriculum and assessment / John Chi-Kin Lee ... [et al.] -- Teachers and teaching in Sinic education / Guofang Li ... [et al.] -- Learners and learning in Sinic societies / Ming Fang He ... [et al.] -- Home and community in Sinic education / Guofang Li ... [et al.] -- Challenges and future directions in Sinic education / Jing Lei and Jianwei Zhang -- Education of immigrants from Sinic civilization / Desiree Baolian Qin ... [et al.] -- Cultural overview of education in Japanese civilization: adaptive learning at the global periphery / Kaori H. Okano -- Who runs Japan's schools?: Education governance and management / Robert Aspinall -- The politics of school curriculum and assessment in Japan / Ryuko Kubota -- Teachers and teaching in Japan: professional Mecca or pressure cooker? / Catherine Lewis -- Learners and learning: structures, practices and purposes / Peter Cave -- The changing relationship between the home and school in Japan / Ryoko Tsuneyoshi -- A nation's school unhinged?: Challenges and future directions for Japanese education / June A. Gordon -- Japanese immigrant and transient students in The United States / Yoshiko Nozaki -- Cultural overview of Islam and education / Nagwa M. Megahed -- Education in The United Arab Emirates: a socio-cultural analysis / Ali S. Ibrahim -- Education in the Sultanate of Oman: the conflict and the harmony of modernity and traditions / Hamood Al-Harthi -- Malaysian education system: a cultural perspective / T. Subahan Mohd Meerah ... [et al.] -- Education of immigrant children from Islamic cultures / Jing Lei -- Cultural overview of the education systems in Buddhist countries / David T. Gamage -- Developments in Sri Lankan system of education: third century BC to the twenty first century AD / David T. Gamage and Prasad Setunga -- Thailand: development of education system since 1220 / Pachrapimon Sooksomchitra Fox and David T. Gamage -- Education system in Bhutan since 747 AD to the first decade of the 21st century / Tandin Wangmo Phuentsholiag and Kinga Choden -- Immigrant children from Asian Buddhist countries: issues in education and adjustment / Wei Qiu, Naiyi Xie, and Yong Zhao -- A cultural overview of education in Hindu civilization / Sheshagiri K.M. -- Colonialism, modernism, neo-liberalism: problematizing education in India / Gaysu R. Arvind -- Learners and learning in India: history, perspectives and contexts / Disha Nawani and Manish Jain -- Indian Americans and the social-cultural context of education / Khyati Y. Joshi.