Knowledge Society and Education in the Asia-Pacific

Recent Trends and Future Challenges
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-981-16-2332-5
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 118 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 219 g

Reihe: SpringerBriefs in Education

This book explores recent trends in the knowledge-based society and education field in Asia-Pacific and discusses future challenges in the region. It presents studies on the development of scientific thought in the field on the knowledge-based society in the Pacific Circle. This book explores the theoretical framework of the knowledge-based society framed by the borders imposed by the Pacific Ocean, particularly from the perspective of the Pacific Circle Consortium (PCC), in the face of a paradigm shift to satisfy the human needs that must be preserved to guarantee economic and human conditions that future development requires. It analyzes how education relates to the knowledge society in the Asia Pacific region, and considers global issues such as environmental degradation, climate change, pollution, soil erosion, growth of the population. It discusses how these issues concerns parents, educators, civil societies and governments of the countries around the Pacific Circle. This book explores the necessity of changing the current transformative paradigm to one that ensures environmental sustainability, with the support of scientific education and research, as an issue that must be integrated into the curricula in schools at all educational levels.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rangel Delgado, José Ernesto

Ivanova Boncheva, Antonina

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Vergleichende und Empirische Bildungsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Gesundheitspädagogik, Umweltpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Presentation.- Introduction.- Chapter I A Call to Examine Civic Discourse and Engagement in the Asia-Pacific in an Online World.- Chapter II Business and Training in a Knowledge-Based Economy Environment the Telmex Case.- Chapter III The Russia’s Knowledge Society.- Chapter IV China: Compatible Relations between the Development of Artificial Intelligence, Employment and Education.- Chapter V Higher Education, Knowledge Economy and Tourism Competitiveness in the APEC Area.- Chapter VI The Knowledge Based Economy in Asia and the Pacific: Links to the Sustainable Development Goals.- Chapter VII Some Reflections on the Evolution and the roll of the Environmental Education.- Epilogue The Knowledge Society in the Circle: The New Era of Education and Research in Asia and the Pacific.

Über Autor(innen)

José Ernesto Rangel Delgado holds a Russian Academy of Science PhD in Economics (1991). He is a Mexican Ministry of Education certified professor (Perfil PRODEP), member of the Researchers National System (SNI-I), and is a full time professor and senior researcher of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Colima. Dr. Rangel is an active participant in national and international conferences, and has authored an co-authored a variety of peer-reviewed articles, books, and book chapters related to human resource development and higher education, and employment policies in the Pacific Basin region. He is an active member of the Pacific Circle Consortium (PCC).
Antonina Ivanova Boncheva is Professor and Senior Researcher at the Department of Economics and Director of APEC Studies Center, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California Sur, Mexico. She served as Vice Chair of the Working Group 3 Bureau of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),2008-2016, and is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and Mexican System of National Researchers. Professor Boncheva is the lead author of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Nobel Prize Reward 2007), review editor of the Fifth Assessment Report and of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Renewable Energies, and lead author of the Sixth Assessment Report (2018-2022). She has also authored and edited a variety of books, book chapters and peer-reviewed articles, and is an active member of the Pacific Circle Consortium (PCC).