Asian Education and Development Studies: Volume 11 Issue 4

Civics education in Malaysia: a clash between ethics, religion and cultural norms

Vishalache Balakrishnan

To showcase the importance of digital citizenship in the current era. This article compares the nine features of digital citizen provided by Ribble and Bailey (2007) with a case…

Creating the digital citizen: students’ co-construction of meaning for global citizenship during online discussions

John P. Myers

This study examines whether online asynchronous discussion forums support student’s meaning-making about citizenship in a globalizing world. Citizenship is an increasingly…

Teaching history in Japan and England: exchanging ideas and comparing knowledge

Matthew Fearns-Davies, Tsutomu Kubota, Fumina Tachibana, Yuko Kato, Ian Davies

This paper describes and discusses collaboration between history teachers in England and Japan. The purpose of this paper is to explore the ways in which history is taught in each…

Rethinking free skilled labour migration policies in CLMV countries: a qualitative systematic review

Hanvedes Daovisan, Pimporn Phukrongpet, Thanapauge Chamaratana

There is an ongoing debate in the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint 2015 concerning the skilled labour migration policy regimes. This review aims to systematise the free…

Gender characteristics and labor market of Macao: insight from the gaming sector classification

Chi Chong Tang

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of gender characteristics in the labor market of Macao and in gaming companies' employee-selection process.

Changing brands and impacts on Las Vegas: messages for Asian gambling destinations

Lynn Marie Jamieson, Brandon Douglas Howell, Carlos Siu Lam

The purpose of this study was to discover, qualitatively, periods of involvement in Las Vegas gambling marketing campaigns and analyze success factors that may be useful to other…

Development and training for the dealers' community in Macau casinos

Jinquan Zhou

The purpose of this paper is to discuss characteristics of dealers training and development in Macau gambling industry by investigating and analyzing the current dealers training…

Regulating Chinese education in colonial Macao: political struggle and the role of “the Chinese Educators' Association of Macau” (c. 1914–1949)

Hang Cheong

The study aims to trace the history of Chinese education in Macao in the first half of the 20th century, emphasizing macro- and meso-level political influences.

Promoting digital citizenship education in junior secondary schools in Hong Kong: supporting schools in professional development and action research

Eric King-man Chong, Shun Shing Pao

This study investigated the effectiveness of a professional development project on digital citizenship education (DCE) conducted by a team at the Education University of Hong…

Pre-primary education and Chinese language acquisition of ethnic minority students in Hong Kong: a multidisciplinary critical evaluation

Fozia Nazir Lone, Bonnie Wing-Yin Chow

This review study focuses on the framework for pre-primary education and language acquisition for non-Chinese-speaking students (NCS students) from ethnic minority families (EM…

There is more than what meets the eye: university preparation for the socio-economic impact requirement in research assessment exercise 2020 in Hong Kong

Danling Li

This paper aims to examine how Hong Kong universities have responded to a newly included assessment element of socio-economic impact in a government-implemented research…

The campaign strategies of the pro-Beijing and pro-democracy parties under the proportional representation system in Hong Kong before 2019

Fung Chan

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the strategies employed by the pro-Beijing and pro-democracy camps in the proportional representation system which was used to universally…

Book review: Developing metacognitive teaching strategies through lesson study

Santosh Jena

Book review: Casino capitalism in Macau: comparison with Las Vegas

Jean A. Berlie