Overview
- A critical analysis of the high performing East Asian nations and the “contests” and “league tables” derived from international literacy and numeracy achievement tests
- Argues for education systems to embrace reforms that promote capabilities which prepare students for life and work in modern and globalised communities
- A unique approach that departs from traditional country study approaches and seeks to identify how each nation has been influenced by cross national policy borrowing
Part of the book series: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects (EDAP, volume 24)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- East Asian Miracle for Education
- Education and Curriculum Reform in East Asia
- Graduate attributes in East Asia
- Inequalities in East Asian Education
- Literacy Standards in Asia Pacific
- Literacy assessment in Asia Pacific
- Multi-lingual education
- PISA, TIMSS and PIRLS East Asian countries
- School development in Asia
- Testing and Examinations in East Asia
About this book
This book critically explores why some Asian nations are on top of the world in students’ achievement tests in reading and literacy, yet governments and industry in these nations are anxious about a crisis in education.
Why are governments anxious about the capabilities and skills of school and university graduates in a global economy when there is a Asian economic boom? The authors explore questions about how the Asian countries value test-based examination curriculum and its influence on the practices of teaching learning and the lives of young people in Asia. The authors describe the challenge of change for East Asian nations to develop more relevant approaches to literacy and language and more inclusive societies focussed on the needs of young people and not exam results.
Reviews
"It is a fresh and original piece of work and particularly insightful in terms of regarding the approaches of literacy including policy in education as being connected in some ways as well as disconnected to a series of interrelated dynamics and perspectives that are located beyond the classroom, beyond schools and are wider than the school systems. These approaches and policies are about the reform of the social conditions and economic arrangements that characterise the experience of people in parts of East Asia. It is this challenge to create the conditions for wider changes at a societal level that comprises the discussion in the final chapter in this book. The problematisation of the autonomous model of literacy underpinning the dominant privileging of international type testing and comparision has been well deconstructed in relation to the East Asian context."
 - Yew Lie Koo, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Literacy and Language in East Asia
Book Subtitle: Shifting Meanings, Values and Approaches
Authors: Marilyn Kell, Peter Kell
Series Title: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4451-30-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-4451-29-1Published: 22 August 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-4560-87-0Published: 27 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-981-4451-30-7Published: 13 August 2013
Series ISSN: 1573-5397
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9791
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 165
Topics: Literacy, International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics