Internationalizing Teaching, Localizing Learning

Internationalizing Teaching, Localizing Learning
Author: Paul McPherron
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2016-12-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1137519541

Based on ethnographic and policy data collected over a ten-year span at a university in the People’s Republic of China, this book analyses the history of English Language Teaching (ELT) polices in Chinese higher education. The book uses the university as a lens in which to investigate the creative imaginations and divergent (re)appropriations of teaching methods, learning materials, and language use in the Chinese ELT context. Book chapters move beyond mere descriptions of tensions and point to the local understandings and practices of English teachers (both local and foreign) and students. Working together, these teachers and students are constantly articulating new social and political conditions and meanings outside and inside given discourses and traditions of ELT. The book’s main argument is that these multiple stakeholders must be given a more prominent role in shaping policy and curriculum at universities and other English language contexts around the world.

Taiwan Education at the Crossroad

Taiwan Education at the Crossroad
Author: C. Chou
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-07-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781349293452

Chou and Ching examine the processes of schooling in Taiwan amidst social, cultural, economic, and political conflict resulting from local and global dilemmas. Collectively, these issues offer a panoramic and in-depth glimpse from the past to the future of educational trends in Taiwan.

A Practical Guide to Localization

A Practical Guide to Localization
Author: Bert Esselink
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 506
Release: 2000
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781588110060

Translation technology has evolved quickly with a large number of translation tools available. In this revised addition, much content has been added about translating and engineering HTML and XML documents, multilingual web sites, and HTML-based online help systems. Other major changes include the addition of chapters on internationalizatoi, software quailty assurance, descktop publishing and localization supprort. There is a focus on translators who want to learn about localization ad translation technology.

Quality Education and International Partnership for Textile and Fashion

Quality Education and International Partnership for Textile and Fashion
Author: Xinfeng Yan
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2023-07-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9819913209

This book mainly focuses on SDG4- Quality Education, and aims to understand the past, present, and future of textile, fashion, apparel, and related study majors of East African countries. Professors and field experts in textile engineering of selected countries describe the potential and prospects of textile education and how it can lead to internationalization in the various chapters. It also discusses the textile university alliance and the potential for international education related to textiles in the developing region. With updated illustrations, images, data, graphs and tables, this book serves as a reference book for universities with textile engineering major in countries throughout the world.

Education Reform in China

Education Reform in China
Author: Janette Ryan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2013-07-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136719199

This book examines the extensive reforms at the early childhood, primary and secondary levels which have taken place in China in recent years, including those in curriculum goals, structure and content, teaching and learning approaches, and assessment and administrative structures.

Internationalization of Teacher Education and the Nation State

Internationalization of Teacher Education and the Nation State
Author: Rita Z. Nazeer-Ikeda
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2020-10-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000214141

The relationship between teacher education and internationalization is often regarded as one that has just begun, sparked by globalization and its knowledge economy. This book questions such an assumption by arguing that although contemporary demands on teacher education have intensified the need for internationalization, teacher education and internationalization have a deep and complex relationship, which is context dependent and has developed differently over time. This book urges its readers to question and rethink overly nationalistic approaches to teacher education. It shows how the internationalization of teacher education could be used as a strategic tool to support sustainable educational development and meet labor market demands for twenty-first century competencies. It puts the spotlight on the imperatives for internationalizing teacher education and its present forms, and considers this current phenomenon in the context of Singapore. This nation state has a history of internationalization, albeit with differing rationales, dimensions and strategies. Internationalization has been a key driver of the Singapore education system’s sustained growth, from its humble beginnings to its present state as one of the best performing education systems in the world. This book will be of great interest to policy makers, academics, researchers and graduate students in the fields of international and comparative education, teacher education, and South East Asian studies.

Teacher Education Intersecting Comparative and International Education

Teacher Education Intersecting Comparative and International Education
Author: Florin D. Salajan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2023-04-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1350339962

This book draws critical connections between teacher education or preparation and the field of comparative and international education (CIE) showing ways in which the two fields can inform and advance one another. The chapters consider how teacher education shapes and is shaped by CIE, particularly in an era of socio-cultural upheavals, politico-economic transformations and climate or health crises affecting the human and natural world. The question at the core of the book is: in what ways can comparative and international education support a rethinking of teacher education in the wake of the social movements for equity, justice and civil liberties with ramifications for educators around the world? It includes contributions from leading academics based in Argentina, Canada, China, Columbia, Finland, Grenada, Hong Kong, Myanmar, Spain, South Africa, Turkey and the USA. The chapters cover topics ranging from equity, social justice, and the sustainable development goals to country case-studies including teacher education in Myanmar and a comparative study of teacher preparation in South Korea and the USA.

New Paradigm for Re-engineering Education

New Paradigm for Re-engineering Education
Author: Yin Cheong Cheng
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 509
Release: 2006-01-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1402036205

In response to the challenges of globalization and local development, educational reforms are inevitably becoming one of the major trends in the Asia-Pacific Region or other parts of the world. Based on the most recent research and international observations, this book aims to present a new paradigm including various new concepts, frameworks and theories for reengineering education. This book has 21 chapters in three sections. Section I "New Paradigm of Educational Reform" containing eight chapters, illustrates the new paradigm and frameworks of reengineering education, fostering human development and analysing reform policies and also discusses the trends and challenges of educational reforms in the Asia-Pacific Region. Section II "New Paradigm of Educational Leadership" with five chapters aims to elaborate how the nature, role and practice of school leadership can be transformed towards a new paradigm and respond to the three waves of education reforms. Section III "Reengineering School Management for Effectiveness" with eight chapters aims to provide various practical frameworks for reengineering school management processes and implementing changes in school practices.

Shaping Education Policy Discourse

Shaping Education Policy Discourse
Author: Jian Li
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2022-09-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9811953554

This book provides key insights into conceptualizing and contextualizing the education policy discourse model from the perspective of the internationalization of education development in China. It discusses the education policy discourse of international education with Chinese characteristics. It comprehensively covers the internationalization of education development, including the macro-perspective on the internationalization of education development in China, the quest for internationalization at home post-COVID-19, international education development in China, and mapping study abroad policy development in China. This book also explores the strategies regarding advancing the internationalization of education development in China contextually and systematically. This is a highly informative and carefully presented book, providing academic insight for readers with an interest in international education policy in China.