Introduction: Difference: its Expansion and Consequences by Aydin Bal and Joseph Lo Bianco -- Multicultural Education in The Australian Context: An Historical Overview by Joseph Lo Bianco -- Multicultural Education, Diversity, and Citizenship in Canada by Reva Joshee, Carla Peck, Laura A. Thompson, Ottilia Chareka, Alan Sears -- Multiculturalism and Multilingual Education for Minority Ethnic Gr…
Chapter 1 Internationalization of Higher Education: Conceptualization, Typology and Issues -- Part 1 Internationalization as Education Hub Development -- Chapter 2 Developing Hong Kong as a regional Education Hub: Functions, Modes and Requirements -- Chapter 3 The quest for regional Education Hub status: Challenges, possibilities and search for new governance in Hong Kong -- Chapter 4 Rethinkin…
Preface: John Siraj-Blatchford -- 1. Education for Sustainable Development in Early Childhood Care and Education: An Introduction; John Siraj-Blatchford and Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson -- 2. The OMEP ESD Research and Development Project; John Siraj-Blatchford -- 3. Early Childhood Education for Sustainable Development in Chile; Selma Simonstein -- 4. Early Childhood Education For Sustainable Dev…
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 …
An outcome of international conferences on the professional practice doctorate has been a continuing conversation amongst scholarly practitioners focused on addressing challenges and issues being encountered concerning in the number and variety of professional practice doctorates in the twenty-first century. These conversations have resulted in a proliferation of programs utilizing a variety of…
1. Introduction -- 2. Contexts: Singapore’s foreign talent programs and the Chinese middle school as a recruiting ground -- 3. Selecting scholars for Singapore: the SM2 program -- 4. Singlish and the Singaporean: cross-cultural encounter and othering -- 5. Being “very China”: self-consciousness and identity transformation -- 6. Desiring an education: scholarly idealism and anti-scholarly …
This book carries out a comparative study of the US response to popular uprisings in the Middle East as an evaluation of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy commitments. In 2009, Obama publicly pledged “a new beginning in US-Muslim relations,” causing eager expectation of a clear shift in US foreign policy after the election of the 44th president of the United States. However, the ach…
In the most in-depth look at education in Cambodia to date, scholars long engaged in research on Cambodia provide historical context and unpack key issues of high relevance to Cambodia and other developing countries as they expand and modernize their education systems and grapple with challenges to providing a quality and equitable education.
Chapter 1. The Politics of Higher Education Tuition Fees and Subsidies -- Chapter 2. The Four Worlds of Students Finance - A Comparatives Descriptive Overview of Tuition Fees and Subsidies in 33 OECD-Countries -- Chapter 3 'Some Flesh to the Bones' - Illustrative Case Studies of Four Diverse Cases Over Seven Decades -- Chapter 4. What do Parties Want? - Parties' Positions and Issue Emphases on …
Part A: Asian Higher Education in the Era of Contemporary Globalization -- Introduction—Collins, Hawkins, Lee, Neubauer -- Chapter 1: John N. Hawkins, “Education in the Asia/Pacific Region: Historical Context” -- Chapter 2: Sheng Ju Chan “A Journey Back to the Center: Asian Higher Education in Global Context” -- Chapter 3: Anthony Welch, “Asian Higher Education: Achievements, Challe…