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This volume critically examines and provides comparative perspectives on the major strategies that selected Asian countries and societies have adopted to enhance their national competitiveness in the increasingly globalized world.

This book offers what it means to rethink and re-examine education in Asia beyond both the Western imperialist eye and the post-colonial 'politics of resentment' and undertakes the difficult work of reimagining education studies in Asia.

Offering an encyclopedic survey of the state of primary-school English-language education across Asia, and exploring topics ranging from policy to curriculum, this volume presents the views not of outside experts but rather local experiences as understood and interpreted by local scholars of international standing, providing useful insights to policy makers, educators, and researchers.

This book critically review the current circumstances and examine the status of English education through the perspectives and experiences of researchers and teachers in Asia. It covers a variety of significant current issues, expectations, and challenges in teaching and learning English in different Asian countries.

This book addresses how colonial histories, nationalism and globalization shape equity and access to education in Southeast Asia - a region with vastly different state structures, political regimes, economies, ethnocultural and religious demography.

This volume discusses the sustainability of higher education massification within Asia Pacific region¿s complex contexts and addresses the issues of implications, challenges, and limitations.

This book describes and critically analyses the current status and diversity of secondary English education in Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, and Vietnam.

This edited volume critically examines non-formal education in Japan, an aspect that has received little attention to date.

This book provides an overview of language education in Malaysia, covering topics such as the evolution of the education system from pre-independence days to the present time, to the typology of schools, and the public philosophy behind every policy made in the teaching of languages. The book consists of chapters devoted to the teaching of languages that form separate strands but are at the same time connected to each other within the education system. It also discusses translation activities and language development to enable the national language, Malay, to fulfil its role as the main medium of education up to tertiary level.