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EDUCATI N Special Needs in Singapore

The Power of Ideas

edited by Meng Ee Wong & Levan Lim (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

by Cheng Li (Brookings Institution, USA)

The Rising Influence of Thinkers and Think Tanks in China

Trends and Issues

“What an excellent resource this publication is!

Everything that one needs to know or should know about special education in Singapore has been comprehensively captured here.

From tracing the genesis of special education to its current state, to acknowledging the key players and watershed moments which have shaped the special education landscape, to covering the issues and challenges pertinent to this sector with such depth and clarity, this volume is a treasure trove of collective wisdom and experience. Whether you are a student, parent, caregiver, teacher, researcher, practitioner or a person interested in finding out more about special education, this publication is for you.”

Anita Fam President of the National Council of Social Service, Singapore This book presents research and perspectives across a wide range of topics and issues relevant to the lives of persons with disabilities, their families and their communities. It integrates local knowledge and international literature, exemplary practices, and innovative ideas for considering future directions and efforts for the fields of special needs education and disability in Singapore.

The contributors to the book are prominent professionals in their respective areas of expertise within the fields of special needs education and disability in Singapore 400pp 978-981-4667-13-5(pbk) 978-981-4678-54-4

Aug 2021 US$38 £32 US$98 £85

Remote Laboratories

Empowering STEM Education with Technology

by Javier García-Zubía (University of Deusto, Spain)

In a remote laboratory, the user performs a real experiment without being in front of the equipment, performing remote experiments mediated by the Internet. Remote Laboratories: Empowering STEM Education with Technology is the first book to cover this radical redistribution of experimentation capacity as a whole.

This book also covers using remote experiments in the classroom, the advantages of remote experimentation, the challenges faced, and opportunities for innovation when using a remote lab. This coverage is supplemented by an exhaustive list of remote experiments conducted around the world.

268pp 978-1-78634-942-2

Mar 2021 US$88 £75

“In this fascinating study, leading American China scholar Cheng Li has written and compiled an unprecedented volume on China’s rapidly growing community of think tanks.

The study includes a thorough inventory of China’s research institutions (government and private), and it offers compelling case studies of four leading public intellectuals. But the best part is Cheng Li’s own deep insights into this community of thinkers and institutions, their relative strengths and weaknesses, and impact on China’s domestic and foreign policies. This volume should be mandatory reading for all China specialists.”

David Shambaugh George Washington University and author of China’s Future Though the media outside China has often reported on China’s growing number of think tanks, it has all but escaped rigorous scholarly scrutiny.

This book focuses on China’s major think tanks where policies are initiated, and on a few prominent thinkers who influence the way in which elites and the general public understand and deal with the various issues confronting the country.

372pp 978-981-3232-18-1(pbk) 978-981-3100-22-0

May 2017 £42 US$48 US$128 £106

What Every Postdoc Needs to Know

by Liz Elvidge (Imperial College London, UK), Carol Spencely (University of Surrey, UK) & Emma Williams (EJW Solutions Ltd, UK) “It is not only the perfect ‘user guide’ for any current or aspiring postdoc, but it should also, I believe, be required reading for those academics with postdoc management responsibilities.”

Professor James Stirling Imperial College London This friendly, practical, and occasionally humorous guide to all things postdoc combines the three authors’ vast experience of postdoc careers and personal development.

This is a guide to developing, advancing and furthering yourself and your career. Providing indispensable advice on UK-based postdocs for national and international students, it is perfect for those making exciting transitions or for those who simply want to take their postdoc up a gear.

280pp 978-1-78634-235-5(pbk) 978-1-78634-234-8

Apr 2017 US$28 £23 US$68 £56

Univer-Cities: Strategic View of the Future From Berkeley and Cambridge to Singapore and Rising Asia (Volume II)

“The editors of this Univer-Cities book are to be congratulated for producing a timely and prescriptive book that should be read by all those concerned with the inter twining of centres of learning with the improvement of mankind’s material and qualitative conditions.”

Dr Ali Allawi former Senior Research Professor, Middle East Institute of National University of Singapore 2012 – 14 former Finance Minister of Iraq, Fellowships at Kennedy School, Oxford, Exeter, Princeton and the World Bank, and Author of Faisal I of Iraq

Univer-Cities Series edited by Anthony SC Teo (Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore) Available as a 4-volume set!

978-981-124-895-5(pbk) US$160

£140

352pp 978-981-4630-26-9(pbk)

Feb 2015 US$45 £37

Univer-Cities: Strategic Dilemmas of Medical Origins and Selected Modalities Water, Quantum Leap & New Models (Volume III)

This third volume presents 12 chapters weaving the dilemmas of strategy and leadership in one of humanity’s beloved institutions, the university (with a long view strategy) and the city (a relatively shorter one).

Contributors of this volume reflect on the deliberations made by the conference participants, including academic leaders from University of Cambridge and University of California, Berkeley, urban architects, policy planners, and public office holders.

Univer-Cities: Strategic Implications for Asia Readings from Cambridge and Berkeley to Singapore

“Anyone who is involved in either industry or education will know that today, the relationship between the university and its host city is increasingly symbiotic and dynamic. Today, the university and the city collaborate and share to enable both to become greater than the sum of their parts. In Asia, I have no doubt that we have only seen the tip of the iceberg, and that the most exciting developments in ‘ univer-cities’ are still ahead of us. This book helps to illuminate the key issues and is therefore an apt beginning to that journey.”

Dr Victor K Fung Founding Chairman, Fung Global Institute Chairman, Fung Group, and Chairman of the Council of The University of Hong Kong, 2001 – 2009

296pp 978-981-3238-72-5(pbk)

May 2018 US$58 £51

Univer-Cities: Reshaping Strategies to Meet Radical Change, Pandemics and Inequality Revisiting the Social Compact? (Volume IV)

“Like a compass with one leg firmly anchored in the wisdom of the past, this Univer-Cities fourth volume traces a broad arc that is global in its embrace, extending its reach in both space and time to encompass the challenges and uncertainties of the future for which we must responsibly plan.”

Dr Roseann O’Reilly Runte President and CEO The Canada Foundation for Innovation and IPP-Vice Chancellor, Carleton University

Univer-cities: Strategic Implications for Asia aims to redefine the multi-faceted symbiotic relationship between universities and host cities. The four readings in this reader will invite readers to challenge the traditional view of what a university is as a place, and re-define the university as a space. This reader will also show how universities can make a huge and innovative impact on the immediate, surrounding, and global communities that are drawn into its ambit of its campus and sought out by the university in inter-univer-city and trans-displinary linkages.

This fourth volume is set against a backdrop of the continual global economic re-structuring as well as technological, virtual and social disruption, exacerbated by a pandemic. Contributions from senior-level academic, government and industry leaders from around the world illuminate their insights, experience and aspirations on the symbiotic role of universities and cities in our disrupted world.

164pp 978-981-4508-65-0(pbk)

248pp 978-981-123-424-8(pbk)

Jun 2013 US$38 £32

East Asian Entrepreneurs

Important reference resource

Handbook of the Sociology of Youth in BRICS Countries

A Study of State Role, Education and Mindsets

edited by Tom Dwyer (University of Campinas, Brazil), Mikhail K Gorshkov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia), Ishwar Modi (University of Rajasthan, India), Chunling Li (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China) & Mokong Simon Mapadimeng (University of Limpopo, South Africa) This handbook brings initial analyses to bear on youth in the five BRICS countries which are home to nearly half of the world’s youth. Very little is known about these youth outside of their own countries since the mainstream views on “youth” and “youth culture” are derived from the available literature on youth in the industrialized West, which is home to a small part of the world’s youth. This book aims to help fill in this gap. The topics covered in the book include politics, education, health, employment, leisure, Internet, identities, inequalities and demographics. The chapters provide original insights into the development of the BRICS countries, and place the varied mechanisms of youth development in context.

1140pp  2

Jan 2018

978-981-3148-38-3

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US$298

May 2021 US$48 £40

£247

by Tai Wei Lim (National University of Singapore, Singapore & Soka University, Japan) This book starts with a succinct and brief literature review of the different definitions of the term ‘entrepreneurship’. Case studies from East Asian countries illuminate the initiatives by states to tap into formerly marginalized groups to power up the entrepreneurship game. Both tangible and intangible barriers and measures to overcome them to entrepreneurship are discussed as well.

200pp 978-981-124-026-3

Jan 2022 US$78 £60

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East China Normal University Scientific Reports - Vol 15

Achieving Greater Educational Impact through Data Intelligence Practice, Challenges and Expectations of Education

by Bian Wu,Yiling Hu & Xiaoqing Gu (East China Normal University, China) 216pp 978-981-123-290-9

Dec 2021 US$88 £75

Applied Physiology of Exercise Textbook and Laboratory Manual

Applied Physiology of Exercise Applied Physiology of Exercise Laboratory Manual

by Govindasamy Balasekaran (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Visvasuresh Victor Govindaswamy (Concordia University, USA), Ziyuan Jolene Lim (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Peck Kay Peggy Boey (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) & Yew Cheo Ng (Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore) 448pp 978-981-124-815-3(Set)(pbk)

Sep 2021 US$58 £50

Sustainable Innovation in Education and Technology - Vol 3

Education and Awareness of Sustainability

Proceedings of the 3rd Eurasian Conference on Educational Innovation 2020 (ECEI 2020) 3rd Eurasian Conference on Educational Innovation 2020 (ECEI 2020) Hanoi, Vietnam, 5 – 7 February 2020 edited by Charles Tijus (University Paris 8, France), Teen-Hang Meen (National Formosa University, Taiwan) & Chun-Yen Chang (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan) 1004pp 978-981-122-935-0 WORLD SCIENTIFIC

Dec 2020 US$198 £175

Cham Tao Soon: Life at Speed

by Tao Soon Cham (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) 220pp 978-981-122-798-1(pbk) 978-981-122-708-0

Dec 2020 £25 US$28 £50 US$58

Tokkatsu

China’s Education Reform Current Issues and New Horizons

edited by Ruiquan Gao & Guanjun Wu (East China Normal University, China) Oct 2018 US$108 £95

304pp 978-981-3237-02-5

What We Learned from PISA

The Japanese Educational Model of Holistic Education

edited by Ryoko Tsuneyoshi (University of Tokyo, Japan), Hiroshi Sugita (Kokugakuin University, Japan), Kanako N Kusanagi (University of Tokyo, Japan) & Fumiko Takahashi (University of Tokyo, Japan) 344pp 978-981-121-417-2(pbk) 978-981-3232-66-2

WSPC-ECNU Series on China - Vol 4

Nov 2019 US$38 £35 US$118 £104

The Outstanding Performance of Students in Hong Kong and East Asia edited by Esther Sui Chu Ho (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Jun 2017 US$138 £121

424pp 978-981-3146-69-3

The 3-Mind Revolution

A Teacher’s Race Course

A New World View for Global Leaders, Educators and Parents (2nd Edition)

by Siok Hui Sie

by David Chiem & Brian Caswell (Mindchamps, Singapore)

Ruminations and Reflections 180pp 978-981-120-716-7(pbk) 978-981-120-715-0

Jul 2019 US$18.50 US$36

£15 £30

Much More Than Academic Abilities edited by David Chan (Singapore Management University, Singapore) 188pp 978-981-120-585-9

Jul 2019 US$36

£30

140pp 978-981-3200-86-9

Jan 2017 US$28 £23

Technology and the Disruption of Higher Education

by Henry C Lucas, Jr (University of Maryland, USA) 248pp 978-981-3144-30-9(pbk) 978-981-3144-29-3

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Sep 2016 US$28 £23 US$58 £48

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When Language Meets Blockchain

by Zhihong Peng (IOL (Internet of Language) Research Institute, China) Translated by: Winnie Mui Yan Tan

Troika!

The Remarkable Ascent of a Great Global University, Nanyang Technological University Singapore, 2003 – 2017

by Bertil Andersson, Haresh Shah, Guaning Su & Tony Mayer (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) This book provides a personal history of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and its remarkable rise, starting from 2003, into the ranks of the top universities in the world as a leading Asian university and the youngest (less than 50 years old) to have achieved this status. It describes the role of the leadership team of Su Guaning, Haresh Shah, and Bertil Andersson, which together formed the “Troika”.

Key Features • It is on the history of the rise of a unique Asian institution into a World leading position • The book provides a guide for university leadership as to how to undertake and implement reforms • It is especially relevant to the university leaderships in Asia, particularly China and other parts of the World 270pp 978-981-123-656-3(pbk) 978-981-123-605-1

Feb 2022 £25 US$28 £70 US$78

Social Context, Policies, and Changes in Singapore Beyond the First 50 Years

edited by Intan Azura Mokhtar & Yaacob Ibrahim (Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore) This book is a collection of essays by thought and advocacy leaders, policymakers, and academics in Singapore who have been and are in positions of influence in shaping social policies, and hence the social context, in the country.

The essays address issues and challenges in (1) Government and Civil Society; (2) Education; (3) Employability and Employment; (4) Social and Family Development; (5) Demographics and Social Spending; (6) Healthcare and Healthcare Financing; (7) Urban Planning and the Environment; (8) Disruptive Technologies and Smart Nation.

250pp 978-981-124-774-3

Feb 2022 US$78 £70

East China Normal University Scientific Reports - Vol 14

Design and Development of a Wiki-based Collaborative Process Writing Pedagogy Putting Technological, Pedagogical, and Content Knowledge (TPACK) in Action

by Xuanxi Li (Huzhou University, China)

This book provides an example of the capitalization of computer and wiki technology to support collaborative writing among Mainland Chinese upper primary school students. It presents the results of a study showing the application of the Design-Based Research (DBR) methodology to design a Wiki-based Collaborative Process Writing Pedagogy (WCPWP) to help students with their writing in the Chinese context.

This book will deepen primary educators’ understanding of the links among technology, pedagogy and content, and guide educators in the integration of social media, as well as the design of effective matching pedagogic strategies, in their teaching of writing.

316pp 978-981-123-691-4

Feb 2022 US$118 £105

“The translation profession is going through an industrial reform in the era of blockchain and Dr Peng is in the vanguard for both the theory and the practical aspect. Besides a systematic exploration into the theory, the latest research and development results of the blockchain are also brought into university classrooms, helping students to be linked seamlessly with the latest technology of the translation industry.”

Susan Xu Head, Translation and Interpretation Programme Singapore University of Social Sciences 240pp 978-981-123-784-3

Feb 2022 £85 US$98

The Art of Teaching Acting Every Teacher’s What, Why and How

by Dean Carey (Actors Centre Australia, Australia) WHAT do actors need to learn at this precise moment? WHY do they need to learn it at this precise moment? HOW best can I provide them with the most beneficial practical experience and deepest level of understanding?

Using these fundamental questions as a base line, master acting teacher Dean Carey shares his most tried and true methods. These are the results of over four decades of his experience teaching, coaching, and mentoring on the international stage.

Containing fifteen of what he considers to be the most transformative acting exerises, this book is every acting teacher’s essential field manual.

150pp 978-981-123-927-4(pbk) 978-981-123-894-9

Mar 2022 US$19.95 US$38

£20 £35

Internationalising Higher Education in the Asia Pacific Case of Australia, Singapore and Japan

by Teofilo Daquila (National University of Singapore, Singapore) With his many years of overseas experiences as an international student, educator and scholar, Teofilo C Daquila has conducted his research on the internationalisation of higher education (IHE), as it has become an important policy issue and research topic for governments and universities around the world.

Daquila examines the University of Melbourne, the National University of Singapore, and Kyoto University as case studies to determine their internationalisation experiences and the extent of their competitiveness. He uses four indicators of competitiveness: governance and structure, demand conditions, factor conditions, and internationalisation strategies (using the following indicators of IHE: expansion, broadening/diversification, deepening and facilitation).

200pp 978-981-125-221-1

May 2022 US$88 £70

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