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Teacher Change in Mainland China: Collaborative Action Research as a Means of Promoting Secondary School Teachers' Engagement with the New Curriculum Reform
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Zhang, Liman; Tan, Yuen Sze Michelle; Adler, Douglas James – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2023
We examined the possibilities of employing collaborative action research (CAR) to promote Mainland Chinese secondary school teachers' engagement with the recent curriculum reform. A brief background of the history of the examination culture and the curriculum reform is provided. We analysed key challenges leading to teachers' resistance to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Participatory Research, Action Research, Secondary School Teachers
Do Chinese Learners Have a Creativity Deficit?
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Mullen, Carol A. – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2019
After witnessing creativity in China's test-centric culture, the author calls for developing learners' creativity as a global proficiency emanating from a belief in one's capacity to create.
Descriptors: Creativity, Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning
Motivating Teachers' Commitment to Change through Distributed Leadership in Chinese Urban Primary Schools
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Liu, Peng – International Journal of Educational Management, 2020
Purpose: Understanding the relationship between distributed leadership and teachers commitment to change in the Chinese urban primary school context was the purpose of this study. Design/methodology/approach: Quantitative research method is used in this study. For ensuring comprehensiveness, this research employed a random sampling method. This…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Urban Schools, Educational Change, Correlation