Education in South-East Asia

Education in South-East Asia is a comprehensive critical reference guide to education in South-East Asia. With chapters written by an international team of leading regional education experts, the book explores the education systems of Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, the People''s Democratic Republic of Lao, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Vietnam. The diverse range and forms of culture, religion and politics embedded in the region are exhibited in the distinctive education systems that inter-relate in one of the most integrated regions in the world. Including a comparative introduction to the issues facing education in the region as a whole this is an essential reference for researchers, scholars, international agencies and policy-makers at all levels.>

About the author

Lorraine Pe Symaco is Professor at Zhejiang University, China. She was UNESCO chair in international and comparative educational research with special reference to South East Asia and Founding Director of the Centre for Research in International and Comparative Education (CRICE) at the University of Malaya, Malaysia.Colin Brock was Honorary Professor of Education at the University of Durham, UK, and Visiting Professor of Geography at the University of Loughborough, UK. He was also UNESCO Chair of Education as a Humanitarian Response at the University of Oxford, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Colin Brock, Lorraine Pe Symaco, Dr Lorraine Pe (Zhejiang University Symaco, Lorraine Symaco, Lorraine Pe Symaco
• Assisted by: Colin Brock (Editor), Dr Lorraine Pe (Zhejiang University Symaco (Editor), Lorraine Symaco (Editor), Lorraine Pe Symaco (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9781474235471
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-3547-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Education Around the World; Education Around the World
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries