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Author:   Soong Hee Han (Seoul National University, South Korea) ,  Peter Jarvis (University of Surrey, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138243712

ISBN 10:   113824371
Pages:   128
Publication Date:   16 June 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction: The study of East and West in comparative education – towards a rationale 1. Learning to be a person – East and West 2. A historical comparison of intellectual renaissance in the East and the West 3. Learning as sociocultural practice: Chinese immigrant professionals negotiating differences and identities in the Canadian labour market 4. Changing grassroots communities and lifelong learning in Japan 5. Confucian states and learning life: making scholar-officials and social learning a political contestation 6. Bridging East and West educational divides in Singapore 7. Educational practice in India and its foundations in Indian heritage: a synthesis of the East and West? 8. ASEM – the modern Silk Road: travelling ideas for education reforms and partnerships between Asia and Europe

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SoongHee Han is Professor of Lifelong Learning in the Department of Education at Seoul National University, South Korea. He is the president-elect (2016-2018) of The Korean Society of Lifelong Education.　His academic work has focused on developing a new platform for discourses on educational theory, especially centred on the framework of lifelong learning, learning societies, and complex learning ecologies. He has published articles in journals such as the International Review of Education, the International Journal of Lifelong Education, and the Asia Pacific Education Review. Peter Jarvis is Emeritus Professor of Continuing Education at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. He is the editor of The Routledge International Handbook of Learning (with Mary Watts, 2012). He is the author of Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society (Routledge, 2008), a trilogy of volumes on lifelong learning; Learning to be a Person in Society (Routledge, 2009); and Adult Education and Lifelong Learning: Theory and Practice (Routledge, 4th ed., 2010). He is also founding editor of The International Journal of Lifelong Education – now in its 30th year.

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