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Hung, Cheng-Yu – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2015
Confucianism, long regarded as the key philosophy on personal character-building and interpersonal relations in Chinese society, used to be pivotal to citizenship education in Taiwan, but that has changed in the last 20 years. In the wake of democratization in the late 1980s, growing liberalism and pluralism in Taiwanese society prompted the…
Descriptors: Traditionalism, Confucianism, Values Education, Values
Yang, Jin; Yorozu, Rika – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2015
Japan, the Republic of Korea and Singapore are in the process of adopting approaches that can be characterised by the terms "learning society" and "lifelong learning". This report uses case studies to present a description of the three countries' national socio-economic climates and to assess their political will and…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
Kang, Hsin-Ru – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Due to the impact of Confucianism on Taiwanese society, Taiwanese married women play multiple family roles including being a daughter-in-law, wife, mother, and working woman. Having to play multiple roles usually brings Taiwanese married women burdens and stress. It is reported that Zen meditation improves people's physical and mental wellbeing.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Asian Culture, Cultural Influences
Li, Mengying – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Universities have been increasingly engaged in international collaborations with peer institutions overseas. In recent years, Confucius Institutes have emerged as a new model of collaboration between American universities and Chinese universities. In an attempt to identify factors contributing to successful international university collaborations,…
Descriptors: Confucianism, Institutional Cooperation, Asian Culture, Universities
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Shin, Jung Cheol – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2012
The features of Korean higher education development are related to sociocultural tradition (Confucian tradition), the model university ideas, and economic development in Korea. The modern university ideas adopted in Korean are based on the German model which was established by the Japanese colonial government and drawing on the US university model…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Development, Asian Culture
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Han, SoongHee – Comparative Education, 2013
This paper describes how the way the concept of learning is identified and managed in a societal context can provide a crucial clue to explaining how a form of culture as a complex mental organism is constructed and interwoven. Specifically, I argue the point by illustrating that the discourse of Confucianism has fabricated a specific form of…
Descriptors: Confucianism, Social Environment, Social Stratification, Role
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Wong, Kelvin; Neves, Ana; Negreiros, Joao – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2017
University students in Macao are required to attend computer literacy courses to raise their basic skills levels and knowledge as part of their literacy foundation. Still, teachers frequently complain about the weak IT skills of many students, suggesting that most of them may not be benefiting sufficiently from their computer literacy courses.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Computer Literacy, Peer Teaching
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Park, Jae – Comparative Education, 2011
This paper opens with a critical analysis of a paradox in contemporary educational research in and about Confucian Heritage Culture (CHC): the assumption that national boundaries coincide with those of a distinct and homogeneous culture, which consistently renders a rather homogenous set of educational phenomena, and collides against a more widely…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Methodology, Criticism, Ethics
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Niu, Weihua – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2012
To many Western observers, Confucian-heritage societies, such as Mainland China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, are characterized as collectivist-orientated in nature. Individuals live within the relationship with others, and the value of an individual is expressed by how the person relates to others. People in these societies are…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Foreign Countries, Creativity, Ideology
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Ho, Wai-Chung – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2013
This study explores how the government of mainland China values Chinese nationalism as a component of its historical memory and traces its relationship with music education from the twentieth century to the global age within broader social contexts. In a rapidly commercializing and modernizing China, nationalism remains the main driving force…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Government Role, Nationalism
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Schenck, Andrew D. – Journal of International Education and Leadership, 2015
While common philosophical foundations influence instruction and leadership in East Asian nations, variable historical factors also significantly impact education within these countries. The current study was designed to holistically examine educational systems in different Confucian contexts, so that contemporary issues and necessary reforms may…
Descriptors: Confucianism, Educational Philosophy, Instructional Leadership, Asian Culture
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Malik, Ranbir Singh – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2015
Evidence from Australia lends support to the "Asian high achieving syndrome" in Chinese-Australian students and "self-deprivation syndrome" in Anglo-Australian students. Applying ethnographic case studies approach for doctoral thesis the author collected data on a longitudinal basis from homes and school of these students. All…
Descriptors: Occupational Aspiration, High Achievement, Ethnography, Case Studies
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Cho, Young Ha; Kim, Tae Jun – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2013
This study cross-culturally explored the way that East Asian lower-secondary school students perceive the peculiar matters of Asian civic values specific to Korea, Chinese Taipei, and Hong Kong using the Asian Regional Module data of the 2009 International Civic and Citizenship Education Study. Methodologically, exploratory and confirmatory factor…
Descriptors: Asian Culture, Secondary School Students, Civics, Social Values
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Poon-McBrayer, Kim Fong – International Journal of Whole Schooling, 2017
Enormous variation exists among nations and regions in their inclusive education provisions. In addition to comparisons based on policy documents and figures, in-depth and contextually grounded comparative studies involving qualitative data based on stakeholder experiences are needed, especially between western and Asian regions or nations where…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education
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Eaves, Mina – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2011
As the number of international students and transnational education agreements continue to rise at an unprecedented rate in many countries, an area of research that continues to lag behind is how far students' learning styles can adapt to different educational contexts. Learning styles research has recently developed from simplistic yet popular…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Validity, Cultural Differences, Learning Processes
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