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1. Asia's High Performing Education Systems

   The Case of Hong Kong

   Edited by Colin Marsh, John Chi-Kin Lee

   Series: Routledge Series on Schools and Schooling in Asia

   Education officials, specialist leaders and teachers have all been involved in different ways to bring about school reform in Hong Kong. This book is a very current and relevant analysis of this reform, highlighting the way in which agencies have cooperated in bringing about change over the last...

   To Be Published April 30th 2014 by Routledge
2. Changing Schools in an Era of Globalization

   By John Chi-Kin Lee, Brian J. Caldwell

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Much has been written about globalization and the challenge of preparing young people for the new world of work and life in times of complexity and continuous change. However, few works have examined how globalization has and will continue to shape education in the East. This volume discusses...

   Published April 4th 2011 by Routledge
3. The Changing Role of Schools in Asian Societies

   Schools for the Knowledge Society

   By Kerry J. Kennedy, John Chi-Kin Lee

   Walk into a classroom in Tokyo, New York, London or Rotterdam, and the similarities in structure, activity, purpose and style will outweigh differences in language, dress and ethnic characteristics. Learning is regulated and rationed, teaching is a process or one-way transmission of knowledge,...

   Published March 30th 2010 by Routledge