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Lyu, Zhaojin – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2023
Nation-building in modern China at the beginning of the twentieth century had to manage the strain between ethnic nationalism and the claim of a multi-ethnic national identity. This study focuses on how history textbooks defined China and addressed this paradox. Based on the qualitative content analysis of eight popular middle school history…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Textbook Content, History Instruction, Middle Schools
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Samuel, Moses; Khan, Mahmud Hasan – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2013
This article provides an analysis of two colonial reports, the Barnes and the Fenn-Wu Reports on education in the British colony of Malaya. The popular stance on the Barnes and the Fenn-Wu Reports is that one is an effect or reply to the other. We argue on the contrary that the two reports construct a common argument on nation-building which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Nationalism, Ethnic Diversity
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Lim, Yangmi; Nam, Su-Jung – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2017
This study analysed "The 8th Online Survey of Adolescent Health and Behaviour in 2012", which is a government-approved statistical survey of Internet use and patterns in Korea. We conducted a propensity score matching (PSM) to control for economic status differences between monocultural and multicultural families and an ANOVA to estimate…
Descriptors: Internet, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Online Surveys
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Stephenson, Maxine; Anderson, Helen; Rio, Nane; Millward, Pam – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2009
This study investigated student perceptions of the significance of having a teacher education programme located in a culturally and ethnically diverse community in New Zealand. Four successive student cohorts were interviewed each year of their teacher preparation, and also during their first year of employment. Students identified location as a…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Urban Schools, Multicultural Education, Student Attitudes
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Tan, Jason – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2010
Compulsory education was legislated in Singapore in 2000. This came several decades after the attainment of universal primary education and after numerous assertions on the part of the government that such legislation was unnecessary. Also interesting is that the period of compulsory education was limited to six years. The article discusses the…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Role of Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Legislation
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Price, Anne – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2009
Increasing the cultural and linguistic diversity of the teaching workforce in Australia was a key recommendation of the House of Representatives Standing Committee Inquiry into Teacher Education in their report, "Top of the Class" (written by L. Hartsuyker). The report reflects findings from national and international research that…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Prior Learning, Foreign Countries, Federal Government