Springer Singapore: 3660 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
This volume presents the refereed papers given at the International Conference on Managing the Asian Century, held in Singapore in July 2013. The proceedings of this conference include original papers contributed by researchers from many countries on different continents. The papers cover multi-disciplinary...
Science Education Research and Practice in Asia
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
This book discusses the scope of science education research and practice in Asia. It is divided into five sections: the first consists of nine chapters providing overviews of science education in Asia (China, Lebanon, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, Oman, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand). The second section...
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Future of ASEAN (ICoFA) 2017 – Volume 2
Science and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
This book examines how business, the social sciences, science and technology will impact the future of ASEAN. Following the ASEAN VISION 2020, it analyses the issues faced by ASEAN countries, which are diverse, while also positioning ASEAN as a competitive entity through partnerships. On the 30th...
Leading for High Performance in Asia
Contemporary Research and Evidence-Based Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
How do leaders lead for high performance in Asia, the fastest growing region in the world? What are the new leadership influential processes and skillsets needed to engage the organizational members in creative and meaningful ways? In this book, readers will find strategic insights and tips derived...
East-Asian Primary Science Curricula
An Overview Using Revised Bloom's Taxonomy
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
This book describes a comparative study of the primary science learning objectives (from the cognitive domain) in the curriculum of six high-achieving East Asian states — mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Japan and Singapore. Specifically, the authors use one of the most widely accepted...
Mandarin Competence of Chinese-English Bilingual Preschoolers
A Corpus-based Analysis of Singaporean Children’s Speech
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This book provides readers with a detailed sketch of the Mandarin competence of Chinese children in Singapore from different home language backgrounds. Their Mandarin competence is defined in terms of lexical diversity, syntactic complexity and code-switching tendency. The findings presented show...
Global Voices in Education
Ruth Wong Memorial Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
This book brings together selected lectures given by eminent educationalists in memory of Ruth Wong, an influential figure in the field of education. The lectures represent the powerful ideas seeded by Dr Wong and address the challenges of education in Singapore’s journey from a textbook case of...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This book presents a collection of state of the art research on GPU Computing and Application. The major part of this book is selected from the work presented at the 2013 Symposium on GPU Computing and Applications held in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Oct 9, 2013). Three major domains...
by Yumiko Nakahara
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This book is the first to cover the research of whole aspects of international mobility to and from Taiwan of both skilled and unskilled workers. The migration of skilled workers is a field that has not been well researched, although it is becoming very important for the economic growth of newly developing...
One-Day, One-Problem
An Approach to Problem-based Learning
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
One-day, one-problem is a unique adaptation of problem-based learning (PBL) pioneered at Republic Polytechnic, Singapore. Here students are challenged each day with a problem from their domain and attain the necessary learning outcomes in the process of responding to the problem. Throughout the day...
Modernization of Asian Theatres
Process and Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
This volume focuses on the theatre history of Asian countries, and discusses the specific context of theatre modernization in Asia. While Asian theatre is one of the primary interests within theatre scholarship in the world today, knowledge of Asian theatre history is very limited and often surprisingly...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
This edited work explores piracy and surreptitious activities such as privateering, war-making, slave-hunting and raiding, focussing on Southeast Asia in the early modern period. Readers will discover nine essays studying the different sub-regions of the Malay Archipelago and adjacent seas and exploring...
Transient Mobility and Middle Class Identity
Media and Migration in Australia and Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
This book offers an understanding of the transient migration experience in the Asia-Pacific through the lens of communication and entertainment media. It examines the role played by digital technologies and uncovers how the combined wider field of entertainment media (films, television shows and...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
This book presents the combined proceedings of the 12th KIPS International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Technologies and Applications (CUTE 2017) and the 9th International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications (CSA2017), both held in Taichung, Taiwan, December 18 - 20, 2017.
The...