Asia Literate Schooling in the Asian Century

Christine Halse is Professor and Chair of Education at Deakin University, Australia.

• Part 1: Positioning Asia Literacy and Schooling 1. What Makes Asia Literacy a ‘Wicked Policy Problem’? Christina Halse 2. The Time Has Come: Histories of Asia literacy David Walker 3. The Concept of Tianxia and Its Impact on Chinese Discourses on the West Rui Yang 4. Learning Asia: In search of a new narrative Fazal Rizvi Part 2: Asia Literacy and the Teaching Profession 5. Assessing Asia Literacy in Australian Teachers Dianne Toe 6. Asia Literacy as Experiential Learning Julie Dyer 7. Professional Standards and Ethics in Teaching Asia Literacy Alex Kostogriz Part 3: Asia in/through the School Curriculum 8. China’s English: Lessons for Asia literacy Bob Adamson 9. The Feasibility of Implementing Cross-Curricular Studies of Asia Anne Cloonan 10. Asia and the Autobiographical Picture Book Elizabeth Bullen and Trish Lunt Part 4: Reimagining Asia Literacy and Schooling 11. Deparochialising Education and the Asian Priority: A curriculum (re)imagination Aaron Koh 12. Asia Engagement beyond Binaries and Boundaries: Towards a re-theorisation of Asia, community, curriculum Michiko Weinmann 13. Australia’s Self-Identity and Three Modes of Imagining Asia: A Critical Perspective on ‘Asia’ Literacy Chengxin Pan

‘As a whole the collection does interesting work to define Asia literacy and to map why we should consider it important... I finished reading the collection with a much deeper understanding of how the term Asia literacy is used, why and to what effect.’ – Annette Woods, Queensland University of Technology, Australia'...it provides some lovely examples of how Asia literacy can be taught in schools, how to better prepare teachers to teach it and how it all fits within the long discourse that has been ‘Asia literacy’ in Australia. Australia isn’t the only nation grappling with these issues and the book provides a broad enough series of article to make this relevant to many other countries too...I really do think this is a particularly good book.' – Trevor Mccandless, Deakin University, Autralia'...Professor Halse presents an important contribution to this conversation. Based on empiric evidence and practical implementation, the volume identifies confirmed enablers of Asia literate schooling, as well as providing readers with engaging stimuli for ways to think through the much larger intellectual project this conversation requires.' – Peta Salter, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia