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1. Citizenship Education in China

   Preparing Citizens for the "Chinese Century"

   Edited by Kerry J. Kennedy, Gregory Fairbrother, Zhenzhou Zhao

   Series: Routledge Series on Schools and Schooling in Asia

   There is a flourishing literature on citizenship education in China that is mostly unknown in the West. Liberal political theorists often assume that only in democracy should citizens be prepared for their future responsibilities, yet citizenship education in China has undergone a number of...

   To Be Published June 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. 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