Overview
- Demonstrates the significance of a sociological and philosophical approach to education
- Addresses both current and long-standing issues in education in the Asia-Pacific Region
- Integrates theoretical insights with practical applications in various areas of education
Part of the book series: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects (EDAP, volume 29)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jae Park is an assistant professor at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. Born and raised in Korea, he followed his family to Peru. He worked as a pediatric surgeon with deprived children’s healthcare and education in civil war-torn Lima. He later earned his M.Ed. and Ed.D. specializing both in philosophy of education from the University of Hong Kong. His fields of study include minority and cultural studies, higher education, managerial theories, and sociology of technology. He published in Educational Philosophy and Theory, International Studies in Sociology of Education, Comparative Education, and Ethics & Behavior. He is the president of the Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong and as a director of the Centre for Lifelong Learning Research and Development of the Hong Kong Institute of Education. He is the editor-in-chief of the Interna
tional Journal of Comparative Education and Development.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sociological and Philosophical Perspectives on Education in the Asia-Pacific Region
Editors: Chi-Ming Lam, Jae PARK
Series Title: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-940-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-287-938-7Published: 18 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5730-5Published: 09 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-940-0Published: 12 December 2015
Series ISSN: 1573-5397
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9791
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 229
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour