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This book offers a critical discourse on teachers as learners. It presents a vision for a new relationship among educational workers as a joint force of learners in a cross-boundary endeavor for moral commitment to education.

The Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC) at the University of Hong Kong is proud and privileged to present this book in its series CERC Studies in Comparative Education.

This book highlights some of Kenneth King's diverse contributions to international and comparative education, African studies and development studies over more than four decades.

Through theoretical lenses of economic sociology and anthropology, this study uncovers strong social and moral embeddedness of the shadow education market in social relationships, cultural norms and moralities in post-Soviet Georgia.

The Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) is the oldest and largest body of its kind, and is a leader among the 44 members of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES).

Although such tutoring has become a major industry and a daily activity for students, tutors and families, the research literature has been slow to catch up with the phenomenon. Boris Jokic is a Scientific Associate in the Centre for Educational Research and Development at the Institute for Social Research in Zagreb, Croatia.

Through theoretical lenses of economic sociology and anthropology, this study uncovers strong social and moral embeddedness of the shadow education market in social relationships, cultural norms and moralities in post-Soviet Georgia.

The 12 portraits in the next section are of three comprehensive universities, three education-related universities, three science and technology universities, and three newly emerging private universities.

As already demonstrated by the first edition of the book, the work will be of great value not only to producers of comparative education research but also to users who wish to understand more thoroughly the parameters and value of the field.

The Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) is the oldest and largest body of its kind, and is a leader among the 44 members of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES).

Although such tutoring has become a major industry and a daily activity for students, tutors and families, the research literature has been slow to catch up with the phenomenon. Boris Jokic is a Scientific Associate in the Centre for Educational Research and Development at the Institute for Social Research in Zagreb, Croatia.

As already demonstrated by the first edition of the book, the work will be of great value not only to producers of comparative education research but also to users who wish to understand more thoroughly the parameters and value of the field.

This book presents accounts of the repositioning of higher education institutions across a range of contexts in the East and the West.

It is a great pleasure to present this book, edited by a distinguished team at the Hong Kong Institute of Education and with excellent contributors from nine countries in the region and beyond.

This book presents accounts of the repositioning of higher education institutions across a range of contexts in the East and the West.

Globalization has brought dramatic changes to the character and functions of education in most countries around the world.

This book is a remarkable feat of scholarship - so remarkable in fact that I put it in the same league as the great classics of the field that had so much to do with setting the direction of Comparative Education.

The 12 portraits in the next section are of three comprehensive universities, three education-related universities, three science and technology universities, and three newly emerging private universities.

How are students in Asia and the Pacific taught to be effective citizens? This volume focuses on citizenship pedagogies that are promoted by governments in this region, and case studies highlight the different approaches adopted by teachers and students.

This book examines issues that have emerged as higher education systems and individual institutions across East Asia confront and adapt to the changing economic, social, and educational environments in which they now operate.

My original formulation of the paradox was that westerners saw Chinese students as rote learning massive amounts of information in fierce exam-dominated classrooms - yet in international comparisons, students in the Confucian heritage cla- rooms greatly outperformed western students learning in 'progressive' western classrooms.

This impressive collection of case studies of a diverse group of societies examines the realities, tensions and pressures that influence the formation of the citizenship curriculum. It informs and enriches understanding of this complex relationship.

How is information and communication technology (ICT) changing teaching and learning practices in secondary schools worldwide in the 21st century? * Is there evidence that key strategic factors commonly found in ICT related educational policies do influence teachers' pedagogical use of ICT?

In this special edited volume, scholars with diverse backgrounds and conceptual frameworks explore how economic, political, social and ideological forces impact on school curricula over time and place.

Most current educational systems and programs are proving inadequate at meeting the demand of fast changing societies since they have hardly evolved and developed with the times. not on doing things right, but on doing the right things to prepare students for a fast changing, interdependent world.

This book conveys an understanding of China's educational development from within and provides unique insights into Chinese society. The book makes Chinese civilization concrete through the drama of the real lives of educators and provides glimpses into the educational context of China's recent move onto the world stage.

The World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES) was established in 1970 as an umbrella body which brought together five national and regional comparative education societies. Over the decades it greatly expanded, and now embraces three dozen societies. This book presents histories of the WCCES and its member societies.

Inequality in Education: Comparative and International Perspectives is a compilation of conceptual chapters and national case studies that includes a series of methods for measuring education inequalities.

Globalization is a multifaceted phenomenon, and one of its major components is the internationalization of education.

Hong Kong and Macao have much in common. The dominant populations in both territories are Cantonese-speaking Chinese; and both have undergone political transition to reunification with China. Yet in education, they are very different. This book contributes to the field of comparative education.