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Ma, Yongjun; Wang, Tao; Wang, Jingying; Chen, Amber La Rayne; Yan, Xiaomei – Research in Science Education, 2021
In response to the 2001 National curriculum review in China, which explicitly promotes scientific inquiry in science-related subjects, many editions of new textbooks were published. Among them, this study explored the quality of scientific inquiry in the most popular science textbooks. There are nine sets of high school science textbooks published…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, High School Students, Science Instruction, Scientific Research
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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
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Wang, Ying; Wen, Xu – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2023
Since the 1990s, the emphasis on intelligibility as a goal in pronunciation teaching rather than near-native or nativelike competence has been reinforced by the increasing use of English as a lingua franca. The insight of the intelligibility principle has greatly impressed researchers in China's English education, but has "very limited and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Yuan, Shuo; Zhou, Mengyuan – Chinese Education & Society, 2023
The centralized compilation and use of educational materials for the three subjects of language arts, ethics and the rule of law (ideology and politics), and history are important moves in the fundamental task of creating educational materials to build up the state's authority and instill virtue and nurturing the young. Here, centrally compiled…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Ethnic Groups, Nationalism, Social Integration
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Tang, Xiaowei; Elby, Andrew; Hammer, David – Science Education, 2020
Through analysis of a classroom lesson led by a decorated teacher, we illustrate how instructional practices favor students seeking empirical patterns at the expense of using mechanistic reasoning. In the lesson, when students spontaneously come up with hypothetical mechanisms to explain why a light bulb in an electric circuit does or does not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pattern Recognition, Logical Thinking, Concept Formation
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Dongying Li – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2024
Curriculum material use is an agentive, reciprocal and innovative practice, involving multiple stakeholders such as teacher, students and assessments that mutually shape one another. While it is generally acknowledged that teachers' knowledge and skills deeply shape the way they use materials, little is known about how material use can possibly…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Educational Change, Curriculum Development, English (Second Language)
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John Stewart Clark; Matthew Terrett – Journal of Research in International Education, 2024
National curriculum standards for different countries mean some International Baccalaureate (IB) schools must often balance IB and national standards. Literature on how schools find this balance is limited. Using a qualitative case study design, we examined the perspectives of teachers of English in a Chinese IB school that recently employed a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Teacher Attitudes, Standards, National Curriculum
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Wang, Zhaoyun; McDougall, Douglas – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2019
This study examined and compared the intended mathematics curricula according to topic coverage, focus, coherence, and learning progression in grades 1-12 within China and the province of Ontario, Canada. The findings show that the overall topics in the two curricula are similar: Chinese curriculum covers 78 topics out of 79 while the Ontario…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Elementary School Mathematics, Secondary School Mathematics, Foreign Countries
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Poole, Adam – Journal of Research in International Education, 2020
This paper responds to Bailey and Cooker's (2019) paper entitled 'Exploring Teacher Identity in International Schools: Key Concepts for Research' in which the authors offer a typology of international school teachers based on interviews with non-qualified teachers. This paper builds upon the typology of international school teachers by offering a…
Descriptors: International Schools, Classification, Foreign Nationals, Professional Identity
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Yu, Min; Renandya, Willy A. – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2021
The study investigates the vocabulary profile of a set of English textbooks "New Senior English for China," which is widely used for senior secondary education in China. It examines how the words required by the 2017 National English Curriculum Standard for General Senior Secondary Education in China are covered, repeated and distributed…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Textbooks, Secondary School Curriculum, National Curriculum
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Wang, Tao – ECNU Review of Education, 2019
Purpose: This article aims to provide a policy review of the new national curriculum program and standards for high school education announced in January 2018 and analyze the key features of curriculum change in China. Design/Approach/Methods: Applying textual analysis, this article interprets the significant changes in the national curriculum…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, National Curriculum
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Gai, Lichun; Li, Yanmei; Zheng, Changlong; Wei, Bing; Jiang, Zhimeng; Lederman, Judith S. – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
While helping students develop informed views about nature of scientific inquiry (VNOSI) has been emphasised in science education, little is known regarding students' current VNOSI at a certain grade level and whether there was evidence of higher attainment of VNOSI in students in higher grades as compared to lower grades? The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Scientific Principles, Scientific Attitudes, Inquiry
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Chen, Ningyang; Gu, Chenyang – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2023
China's impressive growth over the last three decades warrants the need to re-evaluate the position and positioning of English in the country's educational system. For long, English has been taught and learned compulsorily alongside Chinese and maths in primary and secondary schools in the mainland of China. It was not until recent years that the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Required Courses
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Zhao, Fengping – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2022
In the context of China's social transformation and educational reform, addressing the problems of fragmented and ineffective learning in traditional teaching modes and enhancing students' academic levels and developing their comprehensive abilities through structured classroom learning have become critical issues in educational reform. The…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Teaching Methods, Cognitive Ability, Foreign Countries
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Liu, Mingzhuo; Zha, Shenghua; He, Wu – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2019
As development and operation of the massive open online courses (MOOCs) involve multiple stakeholders to work in cooperation, this paper inquired two key stakeholders in the MOOC development, teaching, and operation: administrators and faculty in 50 higher education institutions in China. We sought the experiences and expectations from MOOC…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Higher Education, Mass Instruction, College Faculty
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