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  title info:
    title: Literacy and Language in East Asia
    sub title: Shifting Meanings, Values and Approaches
  name:
    name part: Kell, Marilyn.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Kell, Peter.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 165 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book critically explores why Asian nations are on top of the world in student achievement tests in reading and literacy, yet governments and industry in these nations are anxious about a crisis in education. Why are governments anxious about the capabilities and skills of school and university graduates in a global economy when there is a Asian economic boom? The authors explore questions about how the Asian countries value test-based examination curriculum and its influence on the practices of teaching learning and the lives of young people in Asia. The authors describe the challenge of change for East Asian nations to develop more relevant approaches to literacy and language and more inclusive societies focussed on the needs of young people and not exam results. Dr Marilyn Kell is a researcher at Charles Darwin University, Australia. Professor Peter Kell is Head of School and Professor of Education at Charles Darwin University, Australia.
  table of contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- What is literacy and why is it important? -- High Stakes Testing, Literacy Wars, Globalisation and Asia -- League Tables and the Politics of Ranking -- Global Testing: PISA, TIMSS and PIRLS -- International Testing: The Global Education Space Race? -- Schooling, national development and growth in Asia -- The “East Asian Miracle” economies, inequalities and schooling -- Literacy and workforce capabilities -- The New Dynamic and shifting approaches literacy and language in East Asia.
  note: by Marilyn Kell, Peter Kell.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: International education
  subject:
    topic: Comparative education
  subject:
    topic: Educational policy
  subject:
    topic: ducation and state
  subject:
    topic: Literacy
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Literacy
  subject:
    topic: International and Comparative Education
  subject:
    topic: Educational Policy and Politics
  classification: LC149-161
  classification: 374.0124
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects ; 24
  identifier: 9789814451307
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4451-30-7
  record info:
    record creation date: 130808
    record change date: 20151218081742.0
    record identifier: 978-981-4451-30-7