Ebook: Literacy and Language in East Asia: Shifting Meanings, Values and Approaches
Author: Marilyn Kell Peter Kell (auth.)
- Tags: Literacy, International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics
- Series: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues Concerns and Prospects 24
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Singapur
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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This book critically explores why some Asian nations are on top of the world in students’ achievement tests in reading and literacy, yet governments and industry in these nations are anxious about a crisis in education.
Why are governments anxious about the capabilities and skills of school and university graduates in a global economy when there is a Asian economic boom? The authors explore questions about how the Asian countries value test-based examination curriculum and its influence on the practices of teaching learning and the lives of young people in Asia. The authors describe the challenge of change for East Asian nations to develop more relevant approaches to literacy and language and more inclusive societies focussed on the needs of young people and not exam results.
This book critically explores why Asian nations are on top of the world in student achievement tests in reading and literacy, yet governments and industry in these nations are anxious about a crisis in education.
Why are governments anxious about the capabilities and skills of school and university graduates in a global economy when there is a Asian economic boom? The authors explore questions about how the Asian countries value test-based examination curriculum and its influence on the practices of teaching learning and the lives of young people in Asia. The authors describe the challenge of change for East Asian nations to develop more relevant approaches to literacy and language and more inclusive societies focussed on the needs of young people and not exam results.
Dr Marilyn Kell is a researcher at Charles Darwin University, Australia.
Professor Peter Kell is Head of School and Professor of Education at Charles Darwin University, Australia.
This book critically explores why Asian nations are on top of the world in student achievement tests in reading and literacy, yet governments and industry in these nations are anxious about a crisis in education.
Why are governments anxious about the capabilities and skills of school and university graduates in a global economy when there is a Asian economic boom? The authors explore questions about how the Asian countries value test-based examination curriculum and its influence on the practices of teaching learning and the lives of young people in Asia. The authors describe the challenge of change for East Asian nations to develop more relevant approaches to literacy and language and more inclusive societies focussed on the needs of young people and not exam results.
Dr Marilyn Kell is a researcher at Charles Darwin University, Australia.
Professor Peter Kell is Head of School and Professor of Education at Charles Darwin University, Australia.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-6
What Is Literacy and Why Is It Important?....Pages 7-13
High Stakes Testing, Literacy Wars, Globalisation and Asia....Pages 15-24
League Tables and the Politics of Ranking....Pages 25-32
Global Testing: PISA, TIMSS and PIRLS....Pages 33-49
International Testing: The Global Education Space Race?....Pages 51-77
Schooling, National Development and Growth in Asia....Pages 79-105
The “East Asian Miracle” Economies, Inequalities and Schooling....Pages 107-124
Literacy and Workforce Capabilities....Pages 125-139
The New Dynamic and Shifting Approaches Literacy and Language in East Asia....Pages 141-161
Back Matter....Pages 163-165