Overview
- Discusses current educational reforms in selected countries within the Asia-Pacific region
- Clarifies concepts, issues, and practices related to reforming learning in these countries
- Explores how learning and teaching are affected by educational reforms in these countries
- Highlights the importance of understanding the diverse relationships between reform, learning and teaching within specific historic, political and sociocultural contexts
Part of the book series: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects (EDAP, volume 5)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Focusing on Tools, Transformation and New Learning
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Focusing on Contradictions, Tensions and Systemic Change
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Back Matter
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About this book
In the wake of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, various reform initiatives, policies and programmes have been carried out in different countries within the Asia-Pacific region. All these reform efforts aim to restructure different aspects of schooling in order to promote learning and to prepare students for future challenges in globalised economies. These measures to a certain extent challenge traditional practices, established arrangements and deep-seated assumptions related to different aspects of learning. The authors in this book discuss educational reforms in different countries in the Asia-Pacific region in light of student learning, clarify their concepts, evaluate implementation and impact on the learning processes, with a hope that we can learn better from each other and develop a better understanding of "contemporary" learning and teaching processes within the region. The central argument running through different chapters in this book highlights the importance of understanding reforms and learning within their historical, political and sociocultural contexts.
Reforming learning involves changes in established cultural practices in our schools, classrooms, and other learning sites, and therefore inevitably arouses tensions and negotiations. The discussion in this book puts to the fore the disputable nature of reforming learning and the significance of contextualising the complex relationship between reforms and learning.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"The explosion of interactive technology has provided both opportunities and challenges to educational institutions. In this volume, Ng … and Renshaw (education, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, AU) present reports from several Asian Pacific countries on how learning is being facilitated in the light of increased globalization. … Many of the proposals made will be of interest to educators in other parts of the world." (SciTech Book News, November, 2009)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reforming Learning
Book Subtitle: Concepts, Issues and Practice in the Asia-Pacific Region
Editors: Chi-hung Ng, Peter D. Renshaw
Series Title: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-3024-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3002-4Published: 14 November 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6766-1Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3024-6Published: 23 November 2008
Series ISSN: 1573-5397
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9791
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 376