| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 337 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
SUNY series, frontiers in education |
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SUNY series, frontiers in education
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| Contents |
Roots of Japanese educational achievement : helping children develop bonds to school / Catherine C. Lewis -- East Asian version of whole-class teaching / Harold W. Stevenson, Shinying Lee -- Looking in the Chinese mirror : reflecting on moral-political education in the United States / Gay Garland Red -- Chinese teachers as mirrors of reform possibilities / Lynn Paine -- Restructuring Japanese high schools : reforms for diversity / Nobuo K. Shimahara |
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Disruption and reconnection : counseling young adolescents in Japanese schools / Gerald K. LeTendre -- Human capital formation and school expansion in Asia : does a unique regional model exist? / David P. Baker, Donald B. Holsinger -- Private education in Eastern Asia / William K. Cummings -- Lessons from Japanese cram schools / Nancy Ukai Russell -- Education and work in Japan : implications for policy / Sam Stern -- Education policies in Taiwan (China) and Hong Kong / Kin Bing Wu |
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Improving school-community relations in Thailand / Christopher W. Wheeler, James Gallagher, Maureen McDonough ... (et al.) -- Differences that make a difference : explaining Japan's success / Thomas P. Rohlen -- Education and state development : lessons for the United States? / S. Gopinathan -- Role of state in educational reform in the People's Republic of China / Nina Y. Borevskaya -- Human resource development : the J-Model / William K. Cummings |
| Summary |
Annotation This book highlights how Asian education policy and practice challenge American schools. The book focuses on innovations that the nations of the Pacific Rim have developed for their schools, and it analyzes how these educational systems have tried to meet the challenges of rapid social and economic change |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-327) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Education -- East Asia -- Cross-cultural studies
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Education -- United States -- Cross-cultural studies
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Education and state -- East Asia -- Cross-cultural studies
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Education and state -- United States -- Cross-cultural studies
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EDUCATION -- History.
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EDUCATION -- Comparative.
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Education
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Education and state
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East Asia
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cummings, William K
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Altbach, Philip G
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| LC no. |
96034722 |
| ISBN |
0585089744 |
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9780585089744 |
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9780791432839 |
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0791432831 |
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9780791432846 |
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079143284X |
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