Overview
- Consolidates policies and practices relating to educational equity in East Asian high-achieving systems
- Contextualises East Asian education systems’ excellence within their pursuit of equity
- Contributes East Asian perspectives to the international literature on educational equity
- Facilitates a comparative and cross-referencing platform between East Asian education systems
Part of the book series: Education Innovation Series (EDIN)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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The Pursuit of Equity in Excellence in East Asia
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Striving for Equity in Excellence: The Singapore Experience
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Maria Manzon is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Education and Lifelong Learning at the Education University of Hong Kong. Her research and publications focus on comparative education history, theory andmethods, and on parent engagement in Asian contexts, using philosophical and sociological perspectives. She is Associate Editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Education and Editor of CIEclopedia. Previously, she worked at the National Institute of Education in Singapore as Research Scientist. She is Board Member of the Comparative Education Society of Asia (CESA).
Kenneth Poon is Associate Professor at the Early Childhood and Special Needs Education Academic Group at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. He concurrently serves as Associate Dean (Education Research) at the Office of Education Research, and as Centre Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Child Development. He has led/is leading over S$6 million worth of research projects, with research mainly focusing on the developmental psychopathology of children with risk and those with neurodevelopmental disabilities. He also serves on editorial boards of several journals, on several charity boards, and on advisory panels to the government.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Equity in Excellence
Book Subtitle: Experiences of East Asian High-Performing Education Systems
Editors: Siao See Teng, Maria Manzon, Kenneth K. Poon
Series Title: Education Innovation Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2975-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-2973-9Published: 12 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-2975-3Published: 20 December 2018
Series ISSN: 2211-4874
Series E-ISSN: 2211-4882
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 198
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education