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The Transition from Graduation to Work
Challenges and Strategies in the Twenty-First Century Asia Pacific and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2018
This book reports on the findings from a research study of vocational and higher education graduates’ employability challenges. The nature and extent of these challenges, their underlying causes, and effective strategies to address the problems in this area are all analysed from a multiple-stakeholder...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
This book provides a conceptual framework of global value chains, flexibility and sustainability, supported by research projects, case applications and models in various related areas organized into three parts. In the first part of the book, various authors discuss how to improve the efficiency and...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
This book is a compendium of case studies illustrating how economic tools and techniques can be used to address a wide range of problems in the management and conservation of marine and coastal ecosystems in a developing country context. The studies, which were conducted with support from the Economy...
Investing in Low-Carbon Energy Systems
Implications for Regional Economic Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
This book focuses on multi-level actions that have attracted considerable interest and discussion within academia, decision makers and the public as a tool to assess anthropogenic effects of low-carbon energy development. The book begins with an overview of the state of the art policies in emerging...
The Kyoto Manifesto for Global Economics
The Platform of Community, Humanity, and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
This book confronts the failings of current global economics to deliver the equity, sustainability and community empowerment which humanity now needs to handle a troubled future. The volume proposes an economy built from our society, not the other way around.
The Kyoto Manifesto was built,...
Smart Technologies for Smart Nations
Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific Region
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
This book emphasizes the need for new directions and approaches for social and economic development in the emerging nations of the Asia-Pacific region through the use of Smart Technologies. It takes a holistic view of socio-economic and technical developments taking place through ASEAN and South Asia....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
In this book, specialists and scholars present a comprehensive account of the latest developments in Chinese new media. The articles explore important areas such as security of cyberspace in China; the development of WeChat and micro-blogs; public opinions of social media and the transformation of...
Instrumental Autonomy, Political Socialization, and Citizenship Identity
A Case Study of Korean Minority Citizenship Identity, Bilingual Education and Modern Media Life in the Post-Communism Transitioning China
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
This book offers essential insights into Chinese Korean minority youth citizenship identity development during their high school and university education period out of their political socialization experience. It investigates how they develop their citizenship identity with the state through bilingual...
Inner Experience of the Chinese People
Globalization, Social Transformation, and the Evolution of Social Mentality
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This book comprehensively explores the changes in the Chinese spiritual world from the perspective of transition and transformation. Chinese feeling, a brand-new concept corresponding to Chinese experience, refers to the vicissitudes that 1.3 billion Chinese people have been through in their spiritual...
by Colin Latchem
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
This book is the first comprehensive account of developments in open and distance non-formal education in developing countries for over more than 20 years. It includes many instructive and inspiring examples of how international agencies such as UNESCO, FAO, WHO, UNICEF, USAID and the Commonwealth...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
This book showcases issues of work and employment in contemporary India through a critical lens, serving as a systematic, scholarly and rigorous resource which provides an alternate view to the glowing metanarrative of the subcontinent’s ongoing economic growth in today’s globalized world. Critical...
The Economics of International Immigration
Environment, Unemployment, the Wage Gap, and Economic Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
This is the first book that takes a theoretical approach to the effects of international immigration by considering the current economic topics confronted by more highly developed countries such as Japan. Developed here is the classic trade model by Heckscher–Ohlin–Samuelson, McDougall’s basic...
The Challenge of Teaching
Through the Eyes of Pre-service Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
This book presents thirty-one accounts by final-year pre-service teachers, providing guidance and insights for less advanced teacher education students, and illustrating the use of life history and narrative stories as methods for pre-service teachers to explore educational issues in classroom practice....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
The International Handbooks of Teacher Education cover major issues in the field through chapters that offer detailed literature reviews designed to help readers to understand the history, issues and research developments across those topics most relevant to the field of teacher education from an...