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Dat Bao, Editor; Thanh Pham, Editor – Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 2021
This book identifies three types of influential forces that pose challenges to innovations: socio-cultural dynamics, teacher individuality, and local circumstances. It uses languages, cultural traits, and intellectual heritages in the Asia-Pacific region as an example to show the resistance to Western-based pedagogies due to disparities between…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Barriers, Teacher Characteristics, Instructional Innovation
Walker, Deron – New Horizons in Education, 2011
Background: Despite years of intense criticism of contrastive (intercultural) rhetoric, theoretical debate, and controversy, there has been a recent resurgence in the number of high quality pedagogical studies concerning the teaching of intercultural rhetoric in university writing classes for East-Asian (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) writers.…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Rhetoric, Foreign Countries, Writing Instruction
Day, Christopher, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
The International Handbook of Teacher and School Development brings together a collection of research and evidence-based authoritative writings which focus on international teacher and school development. Drawing on research from 18 countries across 7 continents, the 40 chapters are grouped into 10 themes which represent key aspects of teacher and…
Descriptors: Teachers, Expectation, Teaching (Occupation), Accountability
Bahree, Patricia – 1986
Asia now claims more than half of the world's population and economically presents a challenge to the former western domination of the world's markets. With these changes, education for international understanding is essential. How can the classroom become the site for effective and balanced instruction about Asia? This document presents numerous…
Descriptors: Asian Studies, Cultural Awareness, Educational Development, Educational Methods