Handbook of Asian Education: A Cultural Perspective
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Georgia Southern faculty member Ming Fang He co-edited"Multimodal Funds of Knowledge in Literacy: Countering Deficit Narratives of Diverse Families."
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Abstract
Comprehensive and authoritative, this Handbook provides a nuanced description and analysis of educational systems, practices, and policies in Asian countries and explains and interprets these practices from cultural, social, historical, and economic perspectives. Using a culture-based framework, the volume is organized in five sections, each devoted to educational practices in one civilization in Asia: Sinic, Japanese, Islamic, Buddhist, and Hindu. Culture and culture identities essentially are civilization identities; the major differences among civilizations are rooted in their different cultures. This framework offers a novel approach to capturing the essence of the diverse educational systems and practices in Asia. Uniquely combining description and interpretation of educational practices in Asia, this Handbook is a must-have resource for education researchers and graduate students in international and comparative education, globalization and education, multicultural education, sociocultural foundations of education, and Asian studies, and for educational administrators and education policy makers.
Publication Date
11-30-2010
Publisher
Routledge; Taylor and Francis
ISBN for this edition (13-digit)
9780805864441
ISBN for additional format (13-digit)
9781136721298
