The Changing Role of Schools in Asian Societies: Schools for the Knowledge Society

by John Chi-kin Lee and Kerry J Kennedy

Book Overview

Walk into a classroom in Tokyo, New York, London or Rotterdam, and the similarities in structure, activity, purpose and style will outweigh differences in language, dress and ethnic characteristics. Learning is regulated and rationed, teaching is a process or one-way transmission of knowledge, students need to be docile and conformist, assessment needs to sift and sort the bright from the not-so-bright, and rewards will be given to those who successfully...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415586887
• ISBN13: 9780415586887
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"