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  • Fresh Perspectives on Later Life Learning

    Edited by Brian Findsen ...
    Over the last decade there has been a resurgence of interest in what adults learn in their later years (often described as beyond 65) and how this learning is linked to current personal, social and global issues. This learning commonly occurs in informal ways as seniors go about their daily lives. This kind of informal learning can be supplemented by non-formal education (via participation in ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Taiwan’s Senior Learning Movement

    Perspectives from outside in and from inside out

    Edited by Brian Findsen, Hui-Chuan Wei, Ai-tzu Li ...
    Series Book 28 - Lifelong Learning Book Series
    This volume provides an in-depth analysis of historical and recent developments of senior learning in Taiwan, where publications in English have been scant. It takes a broader view on lifelong learning and active ageing from a theoretical/conceptual base written by prominent international authors- this represents the ‘outside in’ perspective. The ‘inside out’ on the other hand signifies an in ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • International Perspectives on Older Adult Education

    Research, Policies and Practice

    Edited by Brian Findsen, Marvin Formosa ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This important book builds on recent publications in lifelong learning which focus on learning and education in later life. This work breaks new ground in international understandings of what constitutes later life learning across diverse cultures in manifold countries or regions across the world. Containing 42 separate country/regional analyses of later life learning, the overall significance ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

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    Edited by Shin'ichi Suzuki, Edward R. Howe ...
    Research into teacher education is dominated by Anglophone literature, with the inevitable result that teacher education in non-English speaking regions of the world largely remains unexamined. This book fills the gap in the existing literature and comprises twelve invited contributions from an international panel of educationists. To provide the reader with a clear structure, the book offers a ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Higher Education as a Field of Study in China

    Defining Knowledge and Curriculum Structure

    by Xin Wang ...
    Series series Emerging Perspectives on Education in China
    Higher Education as a Field of Study in China: Defining Knowledge and Curriculum Structure concerns the complexity of higher education as an academic field-the evolving nature of the field in light of the overall development of higher education in China. It reviews how higher education as a field of study has evolved in China since 1978 and how the field has been shaped by political and social ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Managing Korean Business

    Organization, Culture, Human Resources and Change

    Edited by Johngseok Bae, Chris Rowley, Tae-Won Sohn ...
    During the 1990s the Korean economy was regarded as a possible "role model" to be followed by other newly industrializing economies, but the "Asian Crisis" of 1997 destroyed this image. Past practices, challenges and responses are explored in this collection by an international group of authors. ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Empowered Educators in China

    How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality

    by Mistilina Sato ...
    BEST PRACTICES FROM CHINA'S HIGH-PERFORMING SCHOOL SYSTEMEmpowered Educators in China is one volume in a series that explores how high-performing educational systems from around the world achieve strong results. The anchor book, Empowered Educators: How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality Around the World, is written by Linda Darling-Hammond and colleagues, with contributions from the ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

  • Gender Equity in STEM in Higher Education

    International Perspectives on Policy, Institutional Culture, and Individual Choice

    Edited by Hyun Kyoung Ro, Frank Fernandez, Elizabeth Ramon ...
    Series series Routledge Research in STEM Education
    This timely volume brings together a range of international scholars to analyse cultural, political, and individual factors which contribute to the continued global issue of female underrepresentation in STEM study and careers.Offering a comparative approach to examining gender equity in STEM fields across countries including the UK, Germany, the United States, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Africa, and ... Read more

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  • China's Higher Education Reform and Internationalisation

    Edited by Janette Ryan ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Despite radical and fundamental reform of the Chinese higher education system, very little is known about this outside China. The past decade has seen radical reform of all levels of China’s education system as it attempts to meet changing economic and social needs and aspirations: this has included transformation of university curricula, pedagogy and evaluation measures, rapidly increasing joint ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Changing Schools in an Era of Globalization

    by John Chi-Kin Lee, Brian J. Caldwell ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Much has been written about globalization and the challenge of preparing young people for the new world of work and life in times of complexity and continuous change. However, few works have examined how globalization has and will continue to shape education in the East. This volume discusses education within the context of globalization and examines what is occurring in schools and systems of ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Leadership and Culture

    The Rapid Rise of Chinese Transformational Leadership: the Model for the Contemporary Chinese Business Leader (The Study)

    by Liana Saenz ...
    Globalization is no longer a choice is a trend in everybodys life. A global leader without cultural awareness and global leadership skills is not able to lead to his [her] full potentialnot globally, not in todays world. Dr. Liana C Saenz.The success of todays global leaders and organizations depends more than ever before on their levels of intercultural awareness, perspectives on diversity, and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Human Resource Management ‘with Chinese Characteristics’

    Facing the Challanges of Globalization

    Edited by Malcolm Warner ...
    Five years into World Trade Organization membership, how is China’s system of people-management adaprting to the changing world? This edited book provides an up-to-date, state-of-the-art overview of current theory and practice of human resource management, ‘with Chinese characteristics’. The latter is a phrase used to refer to the specific cultural, institutional and social setting in which such ... Read more

    $42.99 USD