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Reaching deep into the wealth of Chinese philosophical wisdom, this book offers rich insights into a way of educating that has found staunch advocates among educators through the ages. The ‘free-spirit education’, which calls on educators to respect and nurture the natural goodness of each child, affords an educational principle that is embedded in one of the most important Confucian classics: The Doctrine of the Mean. This book analyzes the meaning, history, principles, and educational application of ‘free-spirit education’ and also explores its contemporary development in the context of a school improvement initiative. It introduces the intellectual origins of ‘free-spirit education’, the application in ’process-based inductive teaching’ and cases from the field. It presents the collection of pedagogical cases that are rooted in the traditions of Chinese philosophic inquiry and viewed through the lens of contemporary pedagogy for human development. This book is a useful reference for university faculty, educational researchers, school teachers and leaders, graduate and undergraduate students in curriculum studies and in philosophy, social science, and education, curriculum developers, and all those educators who are interested in understanding ‘free-spirit education’—a key component of the humanistic traditions of Chinese education.

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Through a detailed analysis of macroeconomic changes and individuals' lifetime employment trajectories, this book explains why Japan and Taiwan have experienced different levels of improvement in women's economic status over the last half century.

Sex discrimination against women - Japan. --- Sex discrimination against women -- Japan. --- Sex discrimination against women - Taiwan. --- Sex discrimination against women -- Taiwan. --- Sex discrimination in employment - Japan. --- Sex discrimination in employment -- Japan. --- Sex discrimination in employment - Taiwan. --- Sex discrimination in employment -- Taiwan. --- Women - Employment - Japan. --- Women -- Employment -- Japan. --- Women - Employment - Taiwan. --- Women -- Employment -- Taiwan. --- Women --- Sex discrimination in employment --- Sex discrimination against women --- Business & Economics --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Employment --- Discrimination against women --- Subordination of women --- Women, Discrimination against --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Feminism --- Sex discrimination --- Women's rights --- Male domination (Social structure) --- Employment (Economic theory) --- Sex role in the work environment --- Sexual division of labor --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity

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Shale gas reservoirs --- Mathematical models. --- Gas shale plays --- Plays, Gas Shale --- Plays, Shale gas --- Shale gas plays --- Gas reservoirs --- Oil-shales

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Pension reform around the world in recent decades has focused mainly on the formal sector. Consequently, many of those working in the informal sector have been left out of structured pension arrangements, particularly in developing countries – a serious problem given this group are often low income earners, vulnerable to economic volatility and change. However, since the turn of the millennium, efforts in a range of countries have increasingly highlighted improving pension coverage for informal sector workers. This paper provides an overview of selected country experience in this regard, and provides some suggestions for governments in developing countries considering implementing their own pension reform to ensure that informal sector workers receive the retirement income they need.

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