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Feng, Wanzhen; Sun, Hanyue – Chinese Education & Society, 2021
During the 14th Five-Year Plan, preschool education in China will move toward the objectives of quality and balance, and the kindergarten teacher workforce must be formed with sufficient quantity, high quality, and balanced distribution. At present, the scale of China's current kindergarten teacher workforce still does not meet the standards for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Teacher Competencies
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Yedigöz-Kara, Zehra; Bümen, Nilay T. – International Journal of Curriculum and Instructional Studies, 2022
There is a rich body of studies on the implementation problems of curricular changes comprising more student-centred methodologies in English as a foreign language education around the world. Focusing on these global-wide studies within the context of the Ecological System Theory, this meta-synthesis aims to identify the common factors that hinder…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hu, Bi Ying; Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth; Leng Ieong, Sylvia Sao; Guo, Haiying – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
This research study examined the challenges faced by early childhood education (ECE) in rural China based on a qualitative study of 217 kindergarten classrooms in a large agricultural, rural province. This study utilised onsite teacher surveys, interviews, and observational field notes. This investigation's findings revealed important information…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten
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Vong, Keang-ieng P.; Li, Min Y. – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2016
The "Miao" ethnic group is among the 56 minority groups in China. Their ideas of education for young children differ from that of the mainstream education system in China. This study examines the scenario of early childhood education for "Miao" children living in villages of Guizhou Province. It discusses the history and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Education, Kindergarten, Minority Group Students
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Jin, Jiang – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
This paper is a keynote speech delivered at the National Symposium of Early Childhood Education) held by the Ministry of Education, December 16-19, 2004. In this paper, Jiang Jin first analyzed the difficulties and challenges that China faced in the development of early childhood education (ECE), including the partially dissolved ECE system,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Foreign Countries, Problems