Asian Migrants and Education

This is a variegated picture of science and mathematics classrooms that challenges a research tradition that converges on the truth. The reader is surrounded with different images of the classroom and will find his beliefs confirmed or challenged. The book is for educational researchers, research students, and practitioners with an interest in optimizing the effectiveness of classrooms as environments for learning.

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt

1. Social Bonding and Freedom: Problems of Choice in Immigrant Societies.- 2. Globalization, Asian Diasporas, and the Study of Asia in the West.- 3. The Mission School in Singapore: Colonialism, Moral Training, Pedagogy, and the Creation of Modernity.- 4. Education and Identity Issues in the Internet Age: The Case of the Indians in Singapore.- 5. Interactions Between Huiguan and Education in Postwar Singapore.- 6. The Case for a Culture-sensitive Education: Building Cultural Bridges Between Traditional and Global Perspectives.- 7. Immigrant Societies and Environmental Education: Revisiting Forgotten Lessons in Holistic and Traditional Wisdom.- 8. Health Education of Hmong Refugees in Sydney.- 9. Confucian Education: A Case Study of the South African Chinese.- 10. A Century of Change: Education in the Lives of Four Generations of Chinese Women in Malaysia.- 11. Contemporary Educational Issues in Multicultural Societies.- 12. International Approaches to Valuing the Professional Skills of Permanent and Temporary Migrants.- 13. Satellite Kids in Vancouver: Transnational Migration, Education and the Experience of Lone-children.- 14. Indian Diaspora and the Prospect of Open Learning: A Perspective on Modern Social Science Education from India.- Contributors.- References.