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Handbook of Asian Education

Yong Zhao, Nagwa Megahed, David Gamage, Jing Lei, Kaori Okano, Guofang Li, Ming Fang He, Hema Ramanathan

2011,2010

Overview

Comprehensive and authoritative, this Handbook provides a nuanced description and analysis of educational systems, practices, and policies in Asian countries and explains and interprets these practices from cultural, social, historical, and economic perspectives. Using a culture-based framework, the volume is organized in five sections, each devoted to educational practices in one civilization in Asia: Sinic, Japanese, Islamic, Buddhist, and Hindu. Culture and culture identities essentially are civilization identities; the major differences among civilizations are rooted in their different cultures. This framework offers a novel approach to capturing the essence of the diverse educational systems and practices in Asia. Uniquely combining description and interpretation of educational practices in Asia, this Handbook is a must-have resource for education researchers and graduate students in international and comparative education, globalization and education, multicultural education, sociocultural foundations of education, and Asian studies, and for educational administrators and education policy makers.

• Publisher: Routledge,Taylor and Francis,Taylor & Francis Group
• Subject: Asian Studies (General) / China / Comparative education / Cross cultural analysis / Cross-cultural studies / Cultural studies / East Asia / Education / Education and state / Educational systems / International & Comparative Education / Islamic education / Japan / Religious education / Sociology of Education / State and education
• ISBN: 9780805864441, 0805864458, 9780805864458, 080586444X