Teaching in Primary Schools in China and India (Inbunden)
avNirmala Rao, Emma Pearson, Margaret Taplin
ISBN: 9780415815529 - UTGIVEN: 201301This book compares primary education in urban and rural China and India. It focuses on how the sociocultural context including educational policy, educators and parents' beliefs, and the conditions under which teaching and learning occur shape classroom pedagogy and determine children's attainment. [...]
Revisiting the Chinese Learner: Changing Contexts, Changing Education (Pocket)
avCarol Chan, Nirmala Rao
ISBN: 9789628093168 - UTGIVEN: 2009-07-01This book, which extends pioneering work on Chinese learners in two previous volumes, examines teaching and learning in Chinese societies and advances understanding of 'the Chinese learner' in changing global contexts. Given the burgeoning research in this area, pedagogical shifts from knowledge tra[...]
Early Childhood Care and Education in the Asia Pacific Region: Moving Towards Goal 1 (Övrig)
avNirmala Rao, Jin Sun
ISBN: 9789881785251 - UTGIVEN: 2011-05-15In 2000, the global community set six goals as part of the Education for All (EFA) agenda. This monograph considers progress towards Goal 1, namely "to expand and improve comprehensive early childhood care and education". The book shows that policy priority and funding for early childhood care and e[...]
