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Research into teacher education is dominated by Anglophone literature, with the inevitable result that teacher education in non-English speaking regions of the world largely remains unexamined. This book fills the gap in the existing literature and comprises twelve invited contributions from an...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
As the centre of the world economy is moving to Asia, lifelong learning in Asia is attracting a great deal of attention in the educational field worldwide. Asia not only provides the largest education market, but also plays an increasingly important role in educational globalization. However, until...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
The youth demographic is a large and growing cohort in Indonesia, and adolescents embody the currents of social change. Throughout the twentieth century they were significant agents of social protest leading to social and political transformation. This book looks at the importance of adolescents in...
To Be Published June 3rd 2013 by Routledge
Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series
Home to approximately one-fifth of the world’s Muslim population, Indonesia and Malaysia are often overlooked or misrepresented in media discourses about Islam. Islam is a religion but there is also a popular culture, or popular cultures of Islam that are mass mediated, commercialized,...
To Be Published June 5th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
SARS (Acute Respiratory Syndrome) first presented itself to the global medical community as a case of atypical pneumonia in one small Chinese village in November 2002. Three months later the mysterious illness rapidly spread and appeared in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Toronto and then Singapore. The high...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy
In the past, undersupply of public infrastructure was blamed for low productivity growth in the United States in the 1970s, while greater private sector participation was emphasized for infrastructure development in the Asia-Pacific region before the Asian Economic Crisis in the 1990s. This...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series
The Ramayana of Valmiki is considered by many contemporary Hindus to be a foundational religious text. But this understanding is in part the result of a transformation of the epic’s receptive history, a hermeneutic project which challenged one characterization of the genre of the text, as a work of...
To Be Published June 27th 2013 by Routledge
The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society is an interdisciplinary resource that focuses on contemporary Japan and the social and cultural trends that are important at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This Handbook provides a cutting-edge and comprehensive survey of...
To Be Published July 11th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Focusing on Sri Lanka, this book offers a new perspective on contemporary debates about nationalism in South Asia. It looks at the ‘capture’ of Buddhism by a highly fetishsised form of Sinhalese nationalism in the colonial and postcolonial periods, and the framing of subsequent key constitutional...
To Be Published July 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Pathfinders
The book explores the various stages of Shyamji Krishnavarma’s life in India and abroad. Particular emphasis is placed on his role as cultural mediator who exerted a formative influence, on both the European view of India as well as the Indian reception of Western political thought....
To Be Published July 30th 2013 by Routledge India
