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  • Emerging International Dimensions in East Asian Higher Education

    Edited by Yuto Kitamura, Kazuo Kuroda, Akiyoshi Yonezawa, Arthur Meerman ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    In East Asia, higher education has relied heavily on private and marketized forces in its rapid development process. At the same time, state governments have introduced strong initiatives especially in upgrading the global positioning of their flagship universities through their pursuit of international competitiveness. Currently, these well-known characteristics of East Asian higher education are ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF WHAT MAKES A MEGA-BESTSELLER IN THIS ENTERTAINING, REVELATORY GUIDEWhat do Michael Corleone, Jack Ryan, and Scout Finch have in common? Creative writing professor and thriller writer James W. Hall knows. Now, in this entertaining, revelatory book, he reveals how bestsellers work, using twelve twentieth-century blockbusters as case studies—including The Godfather, Gone with ... Read more

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  • Linguistic Imperialism Continued

    by Robert Phillipson ...
    This volume brings together key writings since the 1992 publication of Linguistic Imperialism – Robert Phillipson’s controversial benchmark volume, which triggered a major re-thinking of the English teaching profession by connecting the field to wider political and economic forces. Analyzing how the global dominance of English in all domains of power is maintained, legitimized and persists in the ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • Ethnography and Language Policy

    Edited by Teresa L. McCarty ...
    Illuminating, through ethnographic inquiry, how individual agents "make" language policy in everyday social practice, this volume advances the growing field of language planning and policy using a critical sociocultural approach. From this perspective, language policy is conceptualized not only as official acts and documents, but as language-regulating modes of human interaction, negotiation, and ... Read more

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  • Non-Western Educational Traditions

    Local Approaches to Thought and Practice

    by Timothy Reagan ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    Informative and mind-opening, this text uniquely provides a comprehensive overview of a range of non-western approaches to educational thought and practice. Its premise is that understanding the ways that other people educate their children—as well as what counts for them as "education"—may help readers to think more clearly about some of their own assumptions and values, and to become more open ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • English Language Education and Assessment

    Recent Developments in Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland

    Edited by David Coniam ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This volume gathers contributions in the closely linked fields of English language assessment and language education. The contributors from China and Hong Kong represent a mixture of established and new scholars. Areas covered in the language education section range across major developments in the redefining of Hong Kong’s secondary and tertiary curricula, as well as the huge field of China’s ... Read more

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  • Elite Education and Internationalisation

    From the Early Years to Higher Education

    Edited by Claire Maxwell, Ulrike Deppe, Heinz-Hermann Krüger, Werner Helsper ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book offers both a theoretical and empirical examination of elite education, at all stages from the early years to university level. The book explores the various manifestations of internationalisation of education; the implications of these for national education systems; the formation and re-articulation of elite forms of education locally and globally; and how these facilitate the ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • School Leadership in the Context of Standards-Based Reform

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Louis Volante ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    “Although standards-based reform emerged in the United States and the United Kingdom, the idea has spread across the world, as an approach to systemic reform. It might appear that there is a world-wide “tsunami” of standards-based reform that will standardize and homogenize the educational system across the globe. This volume makes it very clear, however, that there is no one approach to standards ... Read more

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  • Emigration, Employability and Higher Education in the Philippines

    by Yasmin Ortiga ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Asian Education
    This book investigates the dilemma of educating students for future work in the context of the Philippines, one of the top sources of migrant labor in the world. Here, colleges and universities are expected to not only educate students for jobs within the country, but for potential employers beyond national borders. It demonstrates how human capital ideology reinforces such export-oriented ... Read more

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  • Learning from Difference: Comparative Accounts of Multicultural Education

    Edited by Joseph Lo Bianco, Aydin Bal ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book analyses the experiences of multicultural education in nine very different international settings uncovering insights from a vast variety of educational contexts. Taking a multi-critical approach in reporting and discussing problems faced by increasingly multicultural and multilingual societies the nine case studies reflect radically different assumptions about what counts as ‘ ... Read more

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  • Fast forwarding Higher Education Institutions for Global Challenges

    Perspectives and Approaches

    Edited by Ismail Hussein Amzat, Byabazaire Yusuf ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book addresses various 21st century questions and challenges, especially the role of technology in upgrading teaching and learning in today’s society, and the role of higher education institutions in improving standards of living, economics, society and sustainability. It shares with readers the challenges of globalization to higher institutions concerning the issues relating to value ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Understanding Social Justice in Rural Education

    by Hernán Cuervo ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores what social justice looks like for rural schools in Australia. The author challenges the consensus that sees the distribution of resources as the panacea for the myriad challenges faced by rural schools and argues that the solution to inequality and injustice in rural settings has to take into account other important dimensions of social justice such as recognition and ... Read more

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