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Indian Higher Education
SAGE India 2009; US$ 39.95India is in the throes of great developments in the field of higher education. This book identifies the needs and gaps in this sector and provides suggestions for improvement based on the lessons learnt from the experiences of other countries. It facilitates a clear and holistic understanding of the sectors complex nature and breaks several myths... more...
Education and Training for Development in East Asia
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 195.00The East Asian miracle, or its supposed demise, is always news. The Four Tiger economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea have experienced some of the fastest rates of economic growth ever achieved. This book provides the first detailed analysis of the development of education and training systems in Asia, and the relationship with... more...
Values Education and Lifelong Learning
Springer 2007; US$ 149.99The aim of this book is to provide an easily accessible, practical yet scholarly source of information about the international concern for the nature, theory and practices of the ideas of values education and lifelong learning. Each chapter in this book is written in an accessible style by an international expert in the field. Authors tackle the task... more...
Social Science Learning in Schools
SAGE India 2010; US$ 29.95Social Science Learning in Schools: Perspective and Challenges locates the teaching and learning of social science within the larger perspective and aims of education. It emphasizes the need to take the teaching of social science beyond the confines of contemporary ideological debates, into the realm of pedagogical theory. It presents critical perspectives... 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...
Higher Education in Asia/Pacific
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2009; US$ 90.00Expansion and privatization have created new concerns over the quality of education throughout the Asia/Pacific region. This volume provides a framework to examine these challenges in the region and beyond. 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...
China
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009; US$ 199.00This is a dedicated issue of Chinese authors.The six papers here cover new initiatives/reforms in China and are presented by staff based either at Beijing Normal University or Hong Kong Institute of Education (with one joint author from Queensland University of Technology, Australia) more...
Governance of Technical Education in India
World Bank Publications 2010; US$ 9.99Higher education, and in particular technical education, is critical to Indias aspirations of becoming a major competitive player in the global knowledge economy. The technical education system is huge and complex, and reforms are imperative. Countrywide policies continue to identify Good Governance as key to the success of reforms and investments... more...
Confucianism, Colonialism, and the Cold War
BRILL 2011; US$ 144.00By tracing the history of Hong Kong?s New Asia College from its 1949 establishment through its 1963 incorporation into The Chinese University of Hong Kong, this study examines the interaction of colonial, communist, and cultural forces on the Chinese periphery. more...









