Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: edward vickers

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  • EDUCATION AND SOCIETY IN POST-MAO CHINA
    EDWARD VICKERS / ZENG XIAODONG
    The post-Mao period has witnessed rapid social and economic transformation in all walks of Chinese life – much of it fuelled by, or reflected in, changes to the country’s education system. This book analyses the development of that system since the abandonment of radical Maoism and the inauguration of ‘Reform and Opening’ in the late 1970s. The principal focus is on formal educ...

    $1,320.00

  • CONSTRUCTING MODERN ASIAN CITIZENSHIP
    VICKERS, EDWARD / KUMAR, KRISHNA
    In many non-Western contexts, modernization has tended to be equated with Westernization, and hence with an abandonment of authentic indigenous identities and values. This is evident in the recent history of many Asian societies, where efforts to modernize – spurred on by the spectre of foreign domination – have often been accompanied by determined attempts to stamp national va...

    $1,420.00

  • HISTORY EDUCATION AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN EAST ASIA
    EDWARD VICKERS
    Visions of the past are crucual to the way that any community imagines itself and constructs its identity. This edited volume contains the first significant studies of the politics of history education in East Asian societies. ...

    $1,380.00

  • IN SEARCH OF AN IDENTITY
    EDWARD VICKERS
    This book traces the influences that have shaped the secondary school history curriculum during Hong Kong's prolonged political transition between the 1960s and the early 21st century, focusing especially on the relationship between history teaching and identity formation. The author's experience as a local history teacher during the mid-1990s made him conscious of the peculiar...

    $1,360.00