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Prospects For Professional Engineering Education In The Asia-Pacific Region - A Historical Case Study Of The University Of Tasmania

by Peter Edward Doe

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 This book examines professional engineering education in the Asia-Pacific region in the context of the history of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tasmania.
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Lifelong Learning In Central Asia - Relevance Of The Fourth Industrial Revolution

~~145,09€~~ 130,58€ 10% OFF

 The book focuses on the issue of adapting the higher education system to the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
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Bridging The Gap Between The Higher Education And Labor Markets - Relevance Of The Fourth Industrial Revolution

~~145,09€~~ 130,58€ 10% OFF

 <p>This book studies and resolves the challenge of bridging the gap between higher education and the labor market arising from the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It unfolds and elucidates the understudied and previously unknown social nature of Industry 4.0, characterized by workers’ dashed expectations regarding automation. Consequently, the book proposes a scientific-practical approach to social adaptation to Industry 4.0 through higher education.</p><p>The novelty of this approach lies in the fact that, instead of passively waiting, workers engage in flexible adaptation to evolving labor market conditions, while universities demonstrate increased flexibility in managing and modernizing educational programs. The book presents a comprehensive set of prospective solutions to bridge the gap between higher education and the labor market, leveraging the unique technological possibilities of Industry 4.0.</p><p>This book explains the essence and technological opportunities for overcoming the gap between higher education and the labor market in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It also delves into and extensively discusses international experiences (including the Kyrgyz Republic, the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), Peru, the Republic of South Africa, Arabian Peninsula Countries, and Russia) and prospects for overcoming the gap between higher education and labor market in the conditions of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, with particular attention to Central Asian countries.</p>
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Education, Engagement, And Youth Crime - Case Studies In The Lived Experience Of Education And Recidivism

by Cassandra Thoars e David Moltow

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 This book presents insights into how affective educational experiences may be associated with youth criminal behaviour and the pathway to recidivism. It explores the perspectives and lived school experiences of five young adult male prison inmates, including while they were incarcerated as youths. Through these case studies, the book explores the relationship between affective engagement in education and recidivism.<div><p>This book shows that participants were affectively disengaged from education prior to their initial incarceration in a youth detention facility, and that their disaffection before, during, and after youth incarceration both generated and impacted on their cognitive and behavioural disengagement from education. Moreover, a range of additional factors not directly causally related to their schooling were shown to have had a significant effect on their engagement in education. </p><p>The book considers a number of key findings. First, the foundational role that a sense of belonging plays in how young people experience education and its relation to crime. Second, the importance of individualized transition plans for youth at risk, and youth offenders before, during, and after incarceration. Third, the extent to which successful transition from youth offending and recidivism hinges on interagency collaboration. This book will be beneficial to teacher educators, education researchers, criminologists and sociologists.</p></div>
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Education In Indonesia - Critical Perspectives On Equity And Social Justice

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 This book offers a critical analysis on Indonesian education by drawing from various critical perspectives and theoretical frameworks to explore persistent challenges and social inequality problems in the education sector.
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Lesson Study As Pedagogic Transfer - A Sociological Analysis

by Kanako N. Kusanagi

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 <div>This book examines education transfer, specifically focusing on pedagogic transfer, and analyzes what happens when lesson study is introduced into foreign contextual settings. Lesson study, a professional development approach that originated in Japan 150 years ago, has been widely considered one of the best practices for collaborative professional development. There is an underlying assumption behind education transfer that when "best practice" is transferred to another country, it will generate a similar effect and improve schooling quality. Since pedagogic practice is socially constructed, the best practice in one setting may not be meaningful in another contextual setting. </div><div><br></div><div>This book makes a unique contribution to the field of comparative education by offering a sociological examination of why pedagogic transfer often fails to bring expected benefits. It is comprised of three parts. Part I, "Pedagogic Transfer and Lesson study," provides contextualized analysis of lesson study in Japan and abroad and presents how the meaning of practice is always reinterpreted against the local educational context. </div><div><br></div><div>Part II presents a sociological analysis of Indonesian teachers’ practice based on ethnographic fieldwork. It conceptually analyses the nature of the teacher community and their practice and is presented as "teacher strategies." The concept showed that teacher culture and practice are not fixed but constantly negotiated within the institutional setting.</div><div><br></div><div>Part III, "Sociological Understanding of Pedagogic Transfer," builds on the analyses in Part I and II and provides a theoretical understanding of the issue of pedagogic transfer. Professional responsibilities of teachers, collegiality, and teaching expertise in Japan and Indonesia are compared to understand how the meaning of lesson study was reconstructed in the Indonesian setting. In conclusion, recommendations for an alternative approach to professional development are offered. </div>
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Japan'S School Curriculum For The 2020s - Politics, Policy, And Pedagogy

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 Chapter 7 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
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English Medium Instruction Practices In Vietnamese Universities - Institutional, Practitioner And Student Perspectives

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 This book provides guidance and practical information for university English as a Medium of Instruction policy makers, lecturers and student support teams in English for academic purposes across disciplines, as well as to the theoretical framing ofthe English as a Medium of Instruction field itself.
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Education In Cambodia - From Year Zero Towards International Standards

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 This book is the most comprehensive account yet published about the education system in Cambodia. It covers all system levels and draws upon the knowledge and insights of a wide range of leading Cambodian and foreign scholars. To this end, the system must rid itself of conservatism, complacency and manipulation by parochial vested interests.
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Digital Education In Russia And Central Asia

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 This book is a collection of the leading scientific studies, which elaborate on the unique specifics of Central Asia and Russia and dwell on the potential and current contribution of digital higher education to the preservation of these specifics and adaptation of universities to them.
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Japan'S International Cooperation In Education - History And Prospects

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 <p>This book records the history of Japan’s international cooperation in education from the 1950s to 2020. It provides a crucial overview of the nearly 70 years since Japan began engaging in international cooperation in education in order to record and document these efforts that range from basic to higher education to technical and vocational education and training, and the large numbers of people involved in their respective areas of activity and specialization. The book provides useful indicators for exploring new forms of education cooperation in this age of global governance and beyond. The authors include not only researchers but also field practitioners, such as personnel from the Japan International Cooperation Agency and NGOs.</p><p>Chapters 1, 3, 5, 9, 12 and 15 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.<br></p><p><br></p>
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Education In Singapore - People-Making And Nation-Building

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 In Part 2, contributors critically delve into issues and policies that are pertinent to understanding education here such as underachievement, leadership, language education, assessment, and meritocracy to question what Part 1 might have taken for granted.
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Diversifying Schools - Systemic Catalysts For Educational Innovations In Singapore

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 It shows how Singapore enables diversity within a structured environment through innovations in Specialized and Future Schools, and highlights the systemic rationale behind various efforts in Specialized and Future Schools and the kinds of adaptations schools have made to leverage structures and make adjustments for their contexts.
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Reforming Pedagogy In Cambodia - Local Construction Of Global Pedagogies

by Takayo Ogisu

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 This book presents a sociocultural account of logic, or a pedagogy, that governs Cambodian education, from policy-making to classroom practices.
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Powering A Learning Society During An Age Of Disruption

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 This open access book presents contemporary perspectives on the role of a learning society from the lens of leading practitioners, experts from universities, governments, and industry leaders.
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Education For The Elderly In The Asia Pacific

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 In order to produce active, healthy, and productive aging citizens, the experiments showcased by this book highlight how adaptive action is needed across many policy areas, with emphasis on shaping structural differences in the composition and organisation of higher education systems that can better foster lifelong learning among elderly citizens.
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Innovation And Entrepreneurship Education In China - Responding To Social Change

by Xiaozhou Xu

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 The book presents results related to studying the common trends of innovation and entrepreneurship education at the times of economic globalization and the experience of major countries, exploring the cultivation model of key innovation and entrepreneurship talents and mechanism of the innovation and entrepreneurship education ecosystem.
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Transforming Pedagogies Through Engagement With Learners, Teachers And Communities

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 This book identifies three types of influential forces that pose challenges to innovations: socio-cultural dynamics, teacher individuality, and local circumstances.
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Anticipating And Preparing For Emerging Skills And Jobs - Key Issues, Concerns, And Prospects

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 This open access book analyzes the main drivers that are influencing the dramatic evolution of work in Asia and the Pacific and identifies the implications for education and training in the region.
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Lived Experience Of Chinese International Students In The U.S. - An Academic Journey

by Michael Wei e Yalun Zhou

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 This book marks a departure from traditional assumptions concerning the deficiencies of Chinese international students in terms of learning and adapting.
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Leading And Transforming Education Systems - Evidence, Insights, Critique And Reflections

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 Drawing on research, policy and practice in a diverse range of contexts to illuminate the process of system transformation and improvement, it provides a rich comparative basis for considering large-scale reform and offers contemporary reflections and insights into the process of school and system improvement.
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Academic Freedom Under Siege - Higher Education In East Asia, The U.S. And Australia

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 <p>This book argues that academic freedom in higher education in East Asia, the U.S. and Australia is under stress. Academic freedom means freedom to teach, research, and serve in multiple political and social roles based on professional principles. It is closely linked to shared governance, in which academics participate in and influence decision making in core academic concerns such as choosing new faculty, faculty promotion, tenure decisions and the approval of new academic programs.</p>In different countries and regions, the duress confronting academic freedom may come from different directions, and the ability of faculty to share power can vary greatly. In authoritarian mainland China, it is mostly political and ideological controls that greatly affect academic freedom, and shared governance is very much limited. In semi-democracies like Hong Kong and Macau and democracies like Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, the U.S. and Australia, corporatization and commercialization havehad great impact on both academic freedom and shared governance.<p></p><br> The result is that the roles professors play within academia are continually being diminished and the academic profession is struggling to maintain its ground. Similar developments are also occurring in Europe. These developments should cause great concern to educators, researchers and policymakers everywhere. The authors collected here present attempts to learn from current practice in order to move policy into directions that will help protect higher education as a common good.<p></p><p> </p><p><i>This book highlights the importance of academic freedom and provides insights into the ways it is being infringed both by commercialization and corporatization on the one hand and political repression on the other. It vividly illustrates detailed case studies and empirical data that make it a compelling read.- </i>Professor Ruth Hayhoe, University of Toronto, Canada</p><p><i> </i></p><p></p><p><i>Academic freedom is as important today as at any time in the last century. The authors point out the challenges that academic freedom faces on a global scale. The import of the book is in its comparative perspective steeped in data and analysis. Thoughtful. Cogent. Compelling. - </i>Professor William G. Tierney and Professor Wilbur-Kieffer, University of Southern California, United States<em></em></p><p> </p>
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New Journey To The West - Chinese Students’ International Mobility

by Aiai Fan, Baoyan Cheng e Le Lin

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 This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the cross-border mobility of Chinese students and addresses the questions of who in China chooses to study overseas, why they want to do so, and what the impacts of this mobility are on Chinaâ€™s social stratification.
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Reforming Vietnamese Higher Education - Global Forces And Local Demands

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 This book deepens readers' conceptual understanding of and provides practical insights into Vietnam's higher education reforms. At the same time, the book explores local demands on Vietnamese higher education, and deciphers how higher education institutions are responding to globalisation, internationalisation and local demands.
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