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Educational Research and Policy-Making in Asian and Pacific Countries

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International Handbook of Educational Research in the Asia-Pacific Region

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If educational research is to play a role in educational reform then it is imperative that there is a cadre of good educational researchers in the country concerned and that there is a healthy relationship between those in a position to ensure change in an education system and the researchers. Education is not a discipline in itself but rather an amalgam of various other disciplines in the social sciences: psychology, sociology, economics and so on. The organisation of education is concerned with the learning and socialisation of children and adults living within the boundaries of the country.

The author is grateful to the following persons for the information that they supplied to him for this article: Yeoh Oon Chye (Singapore), Molly Lee (Malaysia), Sukhum Moonmuang (Thailand), K.C. Cheung (Macao), Mark Bray (Hong Kong), Yong Fang (China), Ryo Watanabe (Japan) and Moegiadi (UNESCO, New Delhi) for information on India and Indonesia.

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  1. University of Hamburg, Germany

    T. Neville Postlethwaite

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Flinders University Institute of International Education, Australia

    John P. Keeves

  2. National Institute for Educational Policy Research of Japan, Tokyo, Japan

    Ryo Watanabe

  3. UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Education, Bonn, Germany

    Rupert Maclean

  4. Griffith University, Southport, Australia

    Peter D. Renshaw

  5. University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

    Colin N. Power

  6. New Zealand Council for Educational Research, Wellington, New Zealand

    Robyn Baker

  7. National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    S. Gopinathan  & Ho Wah Kam  & 

  8. Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong

    Yin Cheong Cheng

  9. Institute of International Education, Stockholm University, Sweden

    Albert C. Tuijnman

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Postlethwaite, T.N. (2003). Educational Research and Policy-Making in Asian and Pacific Countries. In: Keeves, J.P., et al. International Handbook of Educational Research in the Asia-Pacific Region. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3368-7_7

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