1st Edition

Education Reform in China Changing concepts, contexts and practices

Edited By Janette Ryan Copyright 2011
264 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Over the past decade there has been radical reform at all levels of China’s education system as it attempts to meet changing economic and social needs and aspirations. Changes have been made to pedagogy and teacher professional learning and also to the curriculum - both at the basic education level, from kindergarten to year 12, and at the higher education level. This book focuses on reform at... Read more

Introduction - Janette Ryan  Part I: Curriculum policy and practice  1. Reflection in action: Ongoing K-12 curriculum reform in China - Changyun Kang and Jian Liu  2. Constructing a cross-cultural teacher Professional Learning Community in the context of China’s basic education curriculum - Changyun Kang, Gaalen Erickson, Janette Ryan and Ian Mitchell  3. Collaborative narration: Our story in a cross-cultural professional learning community - Keqin Liu, Yuping Li and Changyun Kang  Part II: Educational quality and access  4. Methods to evaluate educational quality and improvement in China - Sally Thomas and Wen-Jung Peng  5. Education in the Tibetan Autonomous Region: Policies and Practices in Rural and Nomadic Communities - Gerard Postiglione, Ben Jiao and Melvyn C. Goldstein  Part III: Educational values and beliefs  6. The changing landscapes of a journey: Educational metaphors in China - Martin Cortazzi and Lixian Jin  8. English language teachers as moral guides in Vietnam and China: Maintaining and re-traditionalising morality - Phan Le Ha, Paul McPherron and Phan Van Que  Part IV: Reform and internationalisation in the disciplines  8. Ten years of curriculum reform in China: A soft knowledge perspective - Wee Tiong Seah  9. Multi-dimensional citizenship education reform: Is this the future trajectory for schools in China and Australia? - Libby Tudball  Part V: Mutual learning and adaptation  10. Mutual learning and adaptation between China and the West through learning each other’s language - Jiewen Zhong  11. Bridging the East and West dichotomy: Harmonising Eastern learning with Western knowledge - Shijing Xu

Biography

Janette Ryan is Director of the UK Higher Education Academy’s Teaching International Students project and a Research Associate at the China Centre, University of Oxford, UK.   Her publications include China’s Higher Education Reform and Internationalisation (also published by Routledge).