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"In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions - so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. In a career spanning four decades, S. Gopinathan is considered by many to be a pillar of teacher education in Singapore. He has played a key role in the establishment and transformation of Singapore's education system, pioneering many programmes and advising on policy both nationally and internationally. In the process, he has contributed over 25 books (authored, co-authored and edited) and 115 articles and book chapters to the field, and continues to inspire and empower younger colleagues in the region to challenge the cause for excellence in education and education reform. In Education and the Nation State, S. Gopinathan brings together 14 of his key writings in one volume. Starting with a specially written introduction, which gives an overview of Gopinathan's career and contextualises his selection, the essays are then arranged thematically, providing an overview not just of his own career, but also reflecting the development and key concerns of education in the nation state that is Singapore"--

This is a review of the book "Human Rights in Global Health: Rights-Based Governance for a Globalizing World" edited by Benjamin Mason Meier and Lawrence O. Gostin.

This paper examines the introduction and subsequent withdrawal of religious knowledge curriculum in Singapore schools. The analysis of this curriculum innovation is located within the larger canvas of socio-religious change in Singapore and the use of the school system as a major tool of socialization via various forms of values education. The reasons given both for the introduction and subsequent withdrawal of the curriculum are analysed and the paper concludes that given the need to manage socio-religious change in Singapore, the schools should continue to play a role. (AJPS/DÜI)

Large‐scale emigration of temporary contract workers from Kerala to countries in the Middle East began in the early 1970s. Return migration flows into Kerala assumed large proportions only after the mid‐1980s. Returned migrants include repatriated illegal immigrants and immigrants evacuated during times of political upheaval and hostilities.Since the end of the 1980s there have been several instances of such repatriation. While reliable information on migration‐related matters is not available in Kerala, not even on the magnitudes of onward and return flows, the total number of returned migrants in Kerala must be already around 0.5 million.Returned migrants are, in general, middle‐aged persons with low levels of education, skills and experience. After return, about one‐half remain unemployed and of the other half, a few retire from active work and the rest enter into self‐employment, mostly in the services sector, or get into salaried jobs, or become wage labour in agriculture or fishing.Returned migrants have received little assistance from the state government or any other institution for rehabilitation and development. The socio‐political and economic climate in the state has remained unfriendly to investment, due to a variety of constraints such as scarcity of land, segmentation of the labour market, wage rates much higher than labour productivity, militant trade unionism, political ideology inimical to the growth of the private capitalist sector and inadequacy of the energy and transport infrastructure.Loss‐making public capitalist sector enterprises have discouraged returned migrants from entrusting their savings with government and several fake private sector enterprises which lured them into taking shares have cheated them. The inertia on the part of the state government to attend to the problems of the emigrants began to thaw after 1996, when it introduced an accident‐cum‐life insurance policy for non‐resident Keralites. But no specified scheme for harnessing the development potential of return migrants has as yet emerged.The novel experiment begun in Kerala for local level development with the active participation of the people, the availability of cooperative credit agencies at all the local levels and the immense possibilities of development of the state, offer a new opportunity for channelling the development potential of the returned migrants into productive investment.

This study investigates different genres in Indian book market to establish a clear understanding of dominating genres in the market. The focus of the study is in tandem with two groups: fiction and non‐fiction books on the basis of 52 weeks' bestsellers list. The model employs a point system constructed by mapping performance score of different genres. By using these performance scores, Kruskal‐Wallis H test and Mann–Whitney U test are performed. The results show that there is a significant difference between each genre but one particular genre stands out the most in both the categories. Romance in Fiction category and Self‐help in non‐fiction category dominates the Indian book market as shown by the study. This evidence has a far‐reaching implication toward the understanding of the dynamics of genre preferences in India.