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Language and Education in Japan
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 95.00The first critical ethnography of bilingual education in Japan. Based on fieldwork at five different schools, this examines the role of schools in the unequal distribution of bilingualism as cultural capital. It argues that schooling gives children unequal access to bilingualism thus socializing them into different futures. more...
Distance and Blended Learning
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 47.95Distance and Blended Learning in Asia is a unique and comprehensive overview of open, distance learning (ODL) and information and communication technology (ICT) in Asian education and training. Broad in coverage, this book critically examines ODL and ICT experiences from Japan to Turkey and from Sri Lanka to Mongolia ? drawing conclusions from the... more...
Paradigms of Learning
SAGE India 2004; US$ 24.95This important volume takes stock of the Total Literacy Campaign (TLC), assessing both its successes and failures in order to draw lessons for the future. Based on detailed first-hand evaluations of the TLC in six districts located in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Jharkhand and Rajasthan, it adopts a fresh approach using in-depth interviews... more...
China?s Christian Colleges
Stanford University Press 2009; US$ 25.95A new generation of China scholars offers a fresh look at the unusual cross-cultural territory constituted by China's missionary-established Christian colleges before 1950 in this fascinating work. more...
Cairo University and the Making of Modern Egypt
Cambridge University Press 1990; US$ 46.00A fascinating history of modern Egypt's leading educational institution. more...
Engineers in Japan and Britain
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 195.00Engineers are a key occupational group in the transformation of the modern world. Contrasts between Japans economic miracle and Britains relative economic decline have often been linked to differences in education, training and employment of engineers. Yet, such views have often rested on little more than colourful anecdotes and selective statistics.... more...
Rise and Fall of Fu Ren University, Beijing
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 176.00This new book tells the story of the rise and fall of Fu Ren University (1925-1952) and provides an analysis of a key Catholic higher education institution in China. more...
Lugard in Hong Kong
Hong Kong University Press 1992; US$ 45.00This book paints a very human picture of Lugard as a working governor in the relative stability of Hong Kong against a backdrop of the Chinese empire being torn apart by revolution. more...
Foreign Exchange
Lehigh University Press 2011; US$ 69.99Foreign Exchange is the story of two women and their experiences at an American Episcopalian missionary school in Wuhan St. Hilda's School for Girls from 1929-1937. Yeh Yuanshuang was a student from a privileged Chinese family; Dorothea Kingsley Wakeman was a short-term teacher from a privileged American family. Both would be transformed by their experiences... more...








