TY - GEN digital ID - 131673040 TI - Primary Science Education in East Asia : A Critical Comparison of Systems and Strategies AU - Lee, Yew-Jin AU - Tan, Jason PY - 2018 SN - 9783319971674 PB - Cham Springer International Publishing DB - UniCat KW - Teacher education. Teacher's profession KW - Didactics KW - Teaching KW - Didactics of sciences KW - Educational sciences KW - Pure sciences. Natural sciences KW - Applied sciences KW - HO (hoger onderwijs) KW - onderwijspolitiek KW - didactiek KW - wetenschap KW - onderwijs KW - wetenschappen KW - lerarenopleiding KW - onderwijsonderzoek KW - lesgeven KW - East Asia UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131673040 AB - This edited volume is a state-of-the-art comparison of primary science education across six East-Asian regions; namely, the People’s Republic of China, Republic of Korea, Republic of China, Hong Kong SAR, Japan, and Singapore. While news of educational policies, classroom teaching, assessment, and other educational innovations here often surface in the international media, this book brings together for the first time relevant information regarding educational systems and strategies in primary science in East Asia. Above all, it is a readable yet comprehensive survey—readers would have an accurate sense of what has been accomplished, what has not worked so well, and what remains to be done. Invited experts in comparative education research and/or science education also provide commentary by discussing common themes across the six regions. These types of critical synoptic reviews add much value by enabling readers to understand broad commonalities and help synthesize what must surely be a bewildering amount of very interesting albeit confusing body of facts, issues, and policies. Education in East Asia holds many lessons (both positive and negative) to offer to the rest of the world to which this volume is a timely contribution to the literature. ER -