Lee / Low Educational Policy Innovations

Levelling Up and Sustaining Educational Achievement
2014
ISBN: 978-981-4560-08-5
Verlag: Springer Singapore
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 242 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Education Innovation Series

This volume presents how high performing education systems over the world are constantly innovating their educational policies to nurture their citizens for the challenges of the future economy and the anticipation of the unknown. This volume includes a state-of-the-art review of the literature in this field, several commissioned focal chapters focusing on the distinctive case of Singapore and internationally commissioned chapters of several other accomplished education systems around the world. A comparative study of Singapore against other high performing education systems is included to provide greater insights to the possible applications to other education systems.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lee, Sing Kong

Lee, Wing On

Low, Ee Ling

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editors’ ForewordForeword by Dennis ShirleyChapter 1 Introduction: Levelling Up and Sustaining Educational Achievement Sing Kong LEE, Wing On LEE, Ee Ling LOW and Jocelyn Shi Yah TANChapter 2 How Useful Are the Experiences of the High Performing Education Systems?Wing On LEE, Ee Ling LOW and Sing Kong LEEChapter 3 Developing Educational Policies in a Holistic Skills FrameworkAndreas SCHLEICHERChapter 4  Conceptualising Teacher Preparation for Educational Innovation: Singapore’s Approach Sing Kong LEE and Ee Ling LOWChapter 5 Singapore’s Performance in PISA: Levelling Up the Long Tail Laik Woon TEH Chapter 6 Singapore’s English Language Policy and Language Teacher Education: A Foundation for its Educational SuccessEe Ling LOWChapter 7 Purposeful Policy and Practice for Equity and Quality - A Finnish CaseHannele NIEMIChapter 8 The Light and Shadow of Educational Achievement in South Korea with Suggestions for Levelling UpYoungdal CHOChapter 9 Effective Teachers for Successful Schools and High Performing Students: The Case of ShanghaiMinxuan ZHANG, Junjie XU and Chuangyuan SUN Chapter 10 Levelling Up and Sustaining Educational Achievement: The Case of Hong KongEsther Sui Chu HOChapter 11 Perspectives on High Performing Education Systems in Finland, Hong Kong, China, South Korea, and Singapore: What Lessons for the U.S.?Lin GOODWINChapter 12 Sustainable, Large-scale Education Renewal: The Case of OntarioBen LEVINChapter 13 Comparative Analysis of High Performing Education Systems: Teachers, Teaching and Teacher Education as Factors of Success Wing On LEE