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Over the last decade, many local students have preferred to study
overseas. This has caused governments to announce the creation of
programs and developments in the higher education sector to upgrade
South-East Asia to a leading education hub. Moreover, many
governments declared that they would work on the insurance of
learning to increase the quality of the degrees and the teaching
itself. This has led many to question the results of these
declarations. Higher Education Challenges in South-East Asia
provides an overview of what has been happening over the last ten
years in higher education in South-East Asia. It also works to
solve the challenges in modern education such as the impacts of
digitalization, globalization, and Generation Y and Z learning
styles. Covering topics that include globalization, educational
technologies, and comparative teaching, this book impacts academic
institutions, policymakers, government officials, university and
college administrators and leaders, academicians, researchers, and
students.
When Vince Lombardi took the job of coaching the Green Bay Packers
in 1959, he inherited a team that had gone from legendary to
laughing stock. They hadn't fielded a winning team in over a decade
and had gone 1-10-1 in the 1958 season despite having seven future
Hall of Famers on the team. They were a team accustomed to losing
and in desperate need of a turnaround. """That First Season"
chronicles that turnaround at the hands of Lombardi, himself
serving as a head coach for the first time. The Packers were a team
of talented underachievers more used to lax coaching and late
nights than grueling practices and curfews. Lombardi's no-bull
coaching style helped hammer them into winners who operated with
machine-like precision. Every football fan knows that the Packers
under Lombardi were champions, but "That First Season" shows how he
did it, bringing readers the inside story of a sports
dynasty.
This is the first comprehensive study of sport in Taiwan to be
published in English. It appears at a time when Taiwan has the
attention of the global community to the greatest extent since the
years following the creation of the People's Republic of China and
the formation by the Chinese Nationalist Party of an alternative
seat of government for the Republic of China in Taiwan's capital,
Taipei. The story of sport in Taiwan is one of athletic
achievements and political machinations with this island's athletes
allowed to compete in international sport only in the name of
Chinese Taipei. The book offers insights into the development,
political uses, and current situation of sport in Taiwan, the
contribution made by the island's indigenous peoples, the
significance of physical activity initiatives, relations between
Taiwan and the PRC, sports fandom, the role of the sports media,
and gender, exercise, and health. As is so often the case with
other parts of the world, sport in Taiwan provides a lens through
which the authors examine a range of political and social issues
and thereby help readers to gain a better understanding of this
interesting, vibrant, and politically sensitive island. "This book
is a comprehensive, critical, and timely piece of scholarship that
makes a valuable and unique contribution to both the field and our
understanding of the distinct and precarious status of Taiwan as a
culture and society. Drawing on a range of academic disciplines,
theories and methods, the fascinating assembly of essays cover
topics spanning indigenous sport, racialised sporting bodies, sport
policy and, sport and international relations. The editors,
Bairner, Chiang, and Chen, have skilfully blended a collection that
uses sport as a strategic lens to provide insights into the complex
cultural, economic, political and diplomatic spheres within which
Taiwan carefully negotiates its sovereignty and identity amidst an
international community that largely spectates from the
geo-political side-lines. This is essential reading for anyone who
wants to understand the significance of sport in Taiwan but also
the significance of Taiwan in the world." -Steve Jackson, Otago
University, New Zealand
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