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This volume discusses the sustainability of higher education massification within Asia Pacific region¿s complex contexts and addresses the issues of implications, challenges, and limitations.

Asia is the largest continent in the world. Five out of the top ten high performing economies in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2018 are located in Asia. Why do Asian students perform so well in STEM-related subjects? This book answers this by examining the STEM education policies and initiatives in Asian economies, as well as the training programmes undertaken by STEM teachers in Asia.The book is broken into four sections, each accompanied by a passage of commentary that summarizes the key takeaways of the chapters. Section one focuses on STEM policy environments and how various countries have developed policies that promote STEM as an integral part of national economic development. Section two focuses on STEM teacher education in the Philippines and Thailand, while section three focuses on STEM curriculum design, context, and challenges in four Asian economies. The fourth and final section focuses on presenting snapshots of STEM education research efforts in Malaysia, South Korea, and Singapore.Written by Asian academics, this book will provide valuable insights to policy makers, educators, and researchers interested in the topic of STEM education, especially in the Asian context.Chapters 7 and 11 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com

Bringing together a comprehensive range of extended research-based chapters, this book provides comprehensive insight into policy, research, and practical aspects of teacher preparation for English teachers at pre-service level across multiple contexts in Asia.

This edited collection provides an overview of English literature education in the Asia-Pacific in global times, bringing to international attention a rich understanding of the trends, issues and challenges specific to nations within the Asia-Pacific region.

This book draws on elements of critical social theory, research on globalization, neo liberalism and education, and Malaysian Studies to understand the interplay of globalization, nationalism, cultural politics and ethnicized neoliberalism in shaping the educational reforms in Malaysia.

This book provides an overview of language education in Malaysia, covering topics such as the evolution of the education system from pre-independence days to the present time, to the typology of schools, and the public philosophy behind every policy made in the teaching of languages. The book consists of chapters devoted to the teaching of languages that form separate strands but are at the same time connected to each other within the education system. It also discusses translation activities and language development to enable the national language, Malay, to fulfil its role as the main medium of education up to tertiary level.

This edited volume critically examines non-formal education in Japan, an aspect that has received little attention to date.

This book describes and critically analyses the current status and diversity of secondary English education in Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, and Vietnam.

This book critically review the current circumstances and examine the status of English education through the perspectives and experiences of researchers and teachers in Asia. It covers a variety of significant current issues, expectations, and challenges in teaching and learning English in different Asian countries.

This book addresses how colonial histories, nationalism and globalization shape equity and access to education in Southeast Asia - a region with vastly different state structures, political regimes, economies, ethnocultural and religious demography.

This book reinvestigates the state of affairs in Muslim education in Asia, paying special attention to Muslim schools¿ perception of educational changes, reasons for such changes and whether their pedagogy and curriculum meet 21st century challenges.

Offering an encyclopedic survey of the state of primary-school English-language education across Asia, and exploring topics ranging from policy to curriculum, this volume presents the views not of outside experts but rather local experiences as understood and interpreted by local scholars of international standing, providing useful insights to policy makers, educators, and researchers.

This book offers what it means to rethink and re-examine education in Asia beyond both the Western imperialist eye and the post-colonial 'politics of resentment' and undertakes the difficult work of reimagining education studies in Asia.

This volume critically examines and provides comparative perspectives on the major strategies that selected Asian countries and societies have adopted to enhance their national competitiveness in the increasingly globalized world.

This volume critically examines and provides comparative perspectives on the major strategies that selected Asian countries and societies have adopted to enhance their national competitiveness in the increasingly globalized world.

This edited collection addresses issues such as how English can be effectively taught and learned, and what English means to, and how it can be "owned" by, non-native speakers of English in Asia and elsewhere. The volume looks at a wide range of topics that are relevant and timely in contexts where English is taught as a foreign language.

This book explores the problems and challenges that come with new knowledge, biotechnological advancement and societal transformation facing Muslims, and to identify the processes towards reformation that impinge on the philosophies (both Western and Islamic), religious traditions and spirituality, learning principles, curriculum, and pedagogy.