Overview
- Highlights the imperative of listening to local communities when designing policy changes
- Provides case studies that illustrate the intersection between everyday life, events and consequences
- Proposes a theoretical position on what it means to be a citizen within the Asian/Pacific region
Part of the book series: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects (EDAP, volume 30)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Eric Po Keung Tsang is an Associate Professor at the Hong Kong Institute of Education specialising in feasibility and environmental impact assessment studies. He also acts as the associate director of the UNEVOC Centre (HK), China and chairman of Green Power a major green group in Hong Kong. He is also a panel member of the Advisory Council on the Environment HKSAR and the International Year of Global Understanding, initiated by the International Geographical Union(IGU).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Everyday Knowledge, Education and Sustainable Futures
Book Subtitle: Transdisciplinary Approaches in the Asia-Pacific Region
Editors: Margaret Robertson, Po Keung Eric Tsang
Series Title: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0216-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-0214-4Published: 11 June 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9107-0Published: 07 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-0216-8Published: 01 June 2016
Series ISSN: 1573-5397
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9791
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 265
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Sustainable Development