The Springer International Handbook of Educational Development in Asia Pacific breaks new ground with a comprehensive, fine-grained and diverse perspective on research and education development throughout the Asia Pacific region. In 13 sections and 127 chapters, the Handbook delves into a wide spectrum of contemporary topics including educational equity and quality, language education, learning and human development, workplace learning, teacher education and professionalization, higher education organisations, citizenship and moral education, and high performing education systems. The Handbook is grounded in specific Asia Pacific contexts and scholarly traditions, using unique country-specific narratives, for example, Vietnam and Melanesia, and socio-cultural investigations through lenses such as language identity or colonisation, while offering parallel academic discourse and analyses framed by broader policy commentary from around the world.
Professor Wing On Lee is Executive Director of Institute for Adult Learning, Singapore University of Social Sciences, and is concurrently Professor at President's Office. Prior to this appointment, he served as Distinguished Professor at Zhengzhou University, China, where he established founded two major research centres, namely the International and Comparative Education Research and the Central Plains Education Research Centre at the School of Education, and was Founding Director for both Centres. He was previously Vice-President and Chair Professor of Comparative Education at the Open University of Hong Kong (2014-17) and Dean of Education Research at National Institute of Education, Singapore (2010-14). He also previously served at Hong Kong Institute of Education as Vice President (Academic) & Deputy to President, Acting President and Chair Professor of Comparative Education, Founding Dean of the School of Foundations in Education, Head of two Departments and Centre for Citizenship Education (2007-2010). In 2005, he was invited by University of Sydney to be Professor and Director (International). Prior to his service in Australia, he served at the University of Hong Kong as Associate Dean of Education and Founding Director of Comparative Education Research Centre. He is a world-renowned scholar in the fields of comparative education and citizenship education. He is former President of the World Council of Comparative Education (2010-13) and served as Honorary Professor in many esteemed universities, including the University of Hong Kong, University of Sydney and Beijing Normal University. Professor Lee has published 36 books and 200 journal articles and book chapters; he is also the co-Editor for three Book Series, and was former Editor of the Asian-Pacific Journal of Education. In 2021, Lee was offered admission to the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame (IACEHOF), Class 2021, in America, appointed to the Governing Board of the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU) in South Korea, and conferred the Overseas Outstanding Contribution Award for Chinese Educational Research by Beijing Normal University.
Professor Phillip Brown is a Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, United Kingdom. He started working life as an apprentice in the auto industry before training as a teacher. His academic career took him to Cambridge University and the University of Kent at Canterbury, joining Cardiff University in 1997. He has spent much of his academic career studying the future of work and its relationship to education, economy and society. He has written, co-authored and co-edited eighteen books, including 'The Death of Human Capital?: Its Failed Promise And How To Renew It In An Age of Disruption' (Oxford University Press, 2020) and 'The Global Auction' (Oxford University Press, 2011). He Chaired an Independent Review for the Welsh Government examining the impact of digital innovation for the economy and the future of work in Wales (2019), and Director of a four-year international research programme on digital futures of education and work, with colleagues at the Institute of Adult Learning, Singapore University of Social Sciences (2019-2023). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, and sits on the Council of Management, National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), Westminster, United Kingdom.
Professor A. Lin Goodwin is Thomas More Brennan Chair of Education at Boston College. Previously, she was Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Education at The University of Hong Kong, and is a past Vice President of the American Educational Research Association (AERA)--Division K: Teaching and Teacher Education (2013-2016). Her research focuses on teacher and teacher educator beliefs, identities and development; equitable education and powerful teaching for immigrant and minoritized youth; international analyses/comparisons of teacher education practice and policy; and the particular issues facing Asian/Asian American teachers and students in U.S. Schools. She began her career as a special education teacher in secondary school.
Professor Andy Green is Professor of Comparative Social Science at the University College London (UCL) Institute of Education, and Director, since 2008, of the ERSC-funded 'Research Centre on Learning and Life Chances' (LLAKES). He was formerly co-founder and co-director of the DFEE-funded 'Wider Benefits of Learning Centre' and has directed major comparative research projects addressing both economic and social impacts of education and training. He has acted as consultant to international bodies, such as CEDEFOP, the European Training Foundation, the European Commission, OECD and UNESCO, and to United Kingdom (UK) Government departments and organisations. He has published widely on a range of social and education issues with major works translated into Chinese, French, German, Japanese and Spanish, including: 'Education and State Formation: Europe, East Asia and the USA', Palgrave, 2013; 'Regimes of Social Cohesion: Societies and the Crisis of Globalisation', Palgrave 2011; 'Education and Development in a Global Era: Strategies for 'Successful' Globalisation', DFID, 2007. His most recent book is on open access with Palgrave: 'The Crisis for Young People: Generational Inequalities in Education, Work, Housing and Welfare'.
