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Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Author: Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804749442
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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"With an ethnographer's ear and a social critic's lens, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas illuminates the care deficit of the immigrant second generation, the children of transnational Filipino families left behind by mothers and fathers who labor in the global economy."--Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara

Author: Philippines
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Category : Gazettes
Languages : en
Pages : 570

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Author: Robin Broad
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520069534
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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"An excellent book. . . . [It] provides a unique picture of the processes of globalist institution transformation in a crucial, less developed country."—John Willoughby, American University

Author: Lynn Kwiatkowski
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429965621
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 365

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Struggling with Development is a study of the complex relationships among international development, hunger, and gender in the context of political violence in the Philippines. This ethnography demonstrates that gender-specific international development, which has among its main goals the alleviation of hunger in women and children and the raising

Author: John P. Synott
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351734245
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299

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This title was first published in 2003:In the globalizing world, South Korea is widely regarded as a model example of how a school education system can enhance national economic development. Similar claims are made for other Asian NICs such as Taiwan. However, less understood is how the education system in South Korea became a site of intense conflict as, in the decade from 1989-99, a large movement of teachers battled with the government over development-related issues such as democratic reforms and human rights in schooling, in a struggle that divided this education-oriented society and at times plunged the nation’s schools into chaos. This book analyses the emergence of the National Teachers’ Union of Korea, Chunkyojo, and traces its struggle for educational reforms. The book examines the South Korean education system within national and global contexts and the historical experiences that have shaped the modern nation - such as its Confucianist history, its experiences of colonialism and the legacy of the Cold War conflict with North Korea. As South Korea searches for pathways for reunification, economic growth and the consolidation of democratic civil society, important new perspectives on the role of education emerge through this analysis of the teachers’ social movement. This book also presents separate chapters on teacher movements in Taiwan and the Philippines, that provide interesting comparisons to the South Korean case, while revealing the distinctive political and historical experiences that have shaped education in these societies and the emergence of reformist teacher movements. In a valuable appendix, the author discusses methodological and theoretical aspects of the research in this book.

Author: Lionel Wee
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027228353
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 333

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This volume brings together contributions that explore the increasingly important roles that English plays in Asia, including its contribution to economic growth, national imaginaries and creative writing. These are issues that are political in a broad sense, but the diversity of Asian contexts also means that the social, political and cultural ramifications of the spread of English into Asia will have to be understood in relation to the challenges facing specific societies. The chapters in the book collectively illustrate this diversity by focusing on countries from South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific. Each country has two contributions devoted to it: one paper provides an overview of the country s language policy and its positioning of English, and another provides a critical discussion of creative expressions involving the use of English. Taken together, the papers in the volume detail the most recent developments concerning the politics of English in Asia."

Author: Martin Khor
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781842771334
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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This is part of a three-volume collection which provides information on innovative development projects in Asia, Latin America and Africa that have actually worked. The 50 cases presented illustrate a wide spectrum of economic and environmental policy and practice.

Author: Jonathan Fox
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317845234
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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First published in 1990. The distribution of rural power in developing countries both shapes and is shaped by national politics. Focusing on Latin America and the Philippines, this volume addresses the question of why rural democratisation has proven to be so difficult across a wide range of national experiences.

Author: Charlie Jeffery
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0714647489
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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These papers describe and analyse the third level of decision-making within the EU, in which multi-level governance can increasingly be identified.