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Song, Jia; Lai, Manhong – Higher Education Policy, 2022
To improve the teaching quality of higher education, the Chinese government has been striving to strengthen teaching accountability in universities. This qualitative study investigates the effects of the current teaching accountability mechanisms on academics at two universities. This study finds a gap between the goal of accountability and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Higher Education, College Faculty
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Kong, Pei Pei – Educational Studies, 2022
This article reports findings from a small-scale qualitative study conducted in partnership with a group of secondary school English Language teachers in China. The study explored the teachers' perspectives of the role of teacher autonomy in the teaching of English as a foreign language. Using semi-structured interviews, nine teachers from three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Lee, MaryJo Benton; Kayongo-Male, Diane – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2017
China is becoming an increasingly polarized society, in large part due to the inaccessibility of basic education for minority children. Schools can be vehicles for social change and community building, and teachers can be agents of transformation and hope. The PRC, however, is experiencing a critical shortage of trained teachers willing to serve…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Change Agents, Minority Group Teachers, Social Change
Kwan, Ming Kai Marko – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Before 1997, no formal curriculum on Chinese cultural education for primary schools was developed in Hong Kong although the education authority had started to introduce some items of Chinese cultural learning into the Chinese language syllabus when the Target Oriented Curriculum was implemented in 1996. However, such items were incorporated into…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Chinese, National Curriculum
Day, Christopher, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
The International Handbook of Teacher and School Development brings together a collection of research and evidence-based authoritative writings which focus on international teacher and school development. Drawing on research from 18 countries across 7 continents, the 40 chapters are grouped into 10 themes which represent key aspects of teacher and…
Descriptors: Teachers, Expectation, Teaching (Occupation), Accountability