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The challenge of Eastern Asian education: implications for America

edited by William K. Cummings and Philip G. Altbach
Resource Type:
E-Book
Publication:
Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, Inc., 1999
Related Series:
SUNY series, frontiers in education
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Table of 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
Contributors:
Cummings, William K.
Altbach, Philip G.
NetLibrary, Inc.
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Other Related Resources:
Other format: Challenge of Eastern Asian education (Albany : State University of New York Press, c1997; xiv, 337 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.; SUNY series, frontiers in education — OCLC Number 35223099)
Related Series:
SUNY series, frontiers in education
Subjects:
Education — East Asia — Cross-cultural studies
Education — United States — Cross-cultural studies
Education and state — East Asia — Cross-cultural studies
Education and state — United States — Cross-cultural studies
Education
Education and state
United States
East Asia
Genres:
Cross-cultural studies
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
General Notes:
Title from title screen.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-327) and index.
Originally published in paper format in 1997 by State University of New York Press.
Digital Characteristics:
data file
Call Numbers:
LA1052 .C43 1999
ISBNs:
0585089744 (electronic bk.)
0791432831 [Invalid]
079143284X [Invalid]
Library of Congress Control Numbers:
96034722 [Invalid]
OCLC Numbers:
1052987903
42856343 [Invalid]