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Du, Xiangyun; Naji, Khalid Kamal; Ebead, Usama; Ma, Jianping – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2021
This qualitative longitudinal study explored three engineering instructors' professional agency in implementing project-based learning (PBL), including multiple sets of data (18 interviews, observations, and written reflections spanning three semesters). The results show that the instructors' care for students, interest in pedagogical innovation,…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, College Faculty, Professional Identity, Faculty Development
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Changmi Wang – SAGE Open, 2024
This article examines the relationship between the English medium instruction teacher's classroom leadership and their teaching self-efficacy. The self-reported data were collected from 188 English-medium instruction teachers at a Chinese public university. The correlational analysis of data revealed that there was a close positive relationship…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Language of Instruction, Transformational Leadership, Teacher Empowerment
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Zhao, Pengfei; Yang, Li; Sa, Zhihong; Wang, Xiying – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2020
Although the past two decades have witnessed the substantial development of sex education in mainland China, Chinese society at large is both conservative and silent in addressing sex-related issues, especially with children and adolescents. Against this background, how do Chinese sex educators understand gender, sexuality and sexuality education,…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Sex Education, Sexuality, Professional Autonomy
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Sahito, Zafarullah; Vaisanen, Pertti – Review of Education, 2020
This study explored the factors of job satisfaction and dissatisfaction with the recommendations given by the researchers in seventy recruited research studies, which have been conducted for literature review of teachers' job satisfaction in developing countries. The recruited studies were conducted across 21 countries in Asia and Africa, but the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Teacher Attitudes, Job Satisfaction
Gillespie, Nicole – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
If we want talented young teachers to develop the capacity to get students excited about high-quality science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning, we must develop a network of STEM teachers who can support teachers in their continued learning about their work and enable them to collaborate with others. If we want teachers to…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Faculty Development, Teacher Empowerment, Professional Autonomy
Kayi-Aydar, Hayriye, Ed.; Gao, Xuesong, Ed.; Miller, Elizabeth R., Ed.; Varghese, Manka, Ed.; Vitanova, Gergana, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2019
This volume examines the agency of second/foreign language teachers in diverse geographical contexts and in both K-12 and adult education. It offers new understandings and conceptualizations of second/foreign language teacher agency through a variety of types of empirical data. It also demonstrates the use of different methodologies or analytic…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Adult Education
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Li, Fuhui – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2015
In recent years, a credit recognition system has been developing in Chinese higher education institutions. Much research has been done on this development, but it has been concentrated on system building, barriers/issues and international practices. The relationship between credit recognition system reforms and democratisation of higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Recognition (Achievement), Credits
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Yin, Hong-biao; Lee, John Chi-Kin; Jin, Yu-le; Zhang, Zhong-hua – Educational Studies, 2013
This study explores the impact of teachers' perception of trust in colleagues on their sense of empowerment in Mainland China, with a particular focus on the mediating role of teacher efficacy. The results of a survey of 1646 teachers indicate that although teachers scored positively on trust in colleagues, efficacy and empowerment, they had…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Trust (Psychology), Teacher Empowerment, Foreign Countries
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Wenren, Xing – English Language Teaching, 2014
This article examines the discursive construction of the authoritative identity of teachers in relation to a number of issues in the classroom context, including identity negotiation, pedagogic discourse and teacher-student power relationship. A variety of classroom teacher talks are analyzed from a discourse analytical perspective, revealing the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Role, Professional Identity, Teacher Student Relationship
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Schenck, Andrew D. – Journal of International Education and Leadership, 2015
While common philosophical foundations influence instruction and leadership in East Asian nations, variable historical factors also significantly impact education within these countries. The current study was designed to holistically examine educational systems in different Confucian contexts, so that contemporary issues and necessary reforms may…
Descriptors: Confucianism, Educational Philosophy, Instructional Leadership, Asian Culture
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Ye, Wangbei – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2012
View through a power perspective, this article critically evaluates tensions involved in China's school-based curriculum development (SBCD) in middle schools: the state's concern about control, accountability, and schools' eagerness to struggle for more decision-making power. This article examines how a Chinese school and its teachers go beyond…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
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Song, Huan – Chinese Education and Society, 2012
As mainland China seeks to implement its curriculum reforms, efforts to apply reform concepts emphasizing teacher empowerment have not been very successful. Theory and policy indicate that one possible solution is to establish a teachers' professional learning community (PLC). This study conducted a survey of thirty-two high schools in three…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, High Schools
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Lee, John Chi-Kin; Yin, Hong-Biao; Zhang, Zhong-Hua; Jin, Yu-Le – Chinese Education and Society, 2011
This study explores the relationships between teacher empowerment, teacher receptivity toward, and perceived outcomes of, a system-wide curriculum change, particularly national curriculum reform in basic education in China. The results of a survey of 1,646 teachers from six provinces indicate that teachers were positive in their receptivity and…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Teacher Empowerment, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Lee, John Chi-Kin; Zhang, Zhonghua; Song, Huan – Education and Society, 2012
This study explores how teachers' shared perception of empowerment influences teacher efficacy and organizational commitment in the Chinese Mainland. A two-level hierarchical linear model is used to test the proposed theoretical framework. The results indicated that "professional growth", a school-level teacher empowerment factor, was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Empowerment, Teacher Effectiveness, Self Efficacy
Tatto, Maria Teresa, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2007
This book seeks to raise the discussion of globalisation's effects on teacher education, development and work, and its reforms and institutions, to a more theoretical and analytical level, and to provide specific examples in the comparative tradition to illustrate teacher policy in the context of education systems' widespread variability and…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Teacher Education, Educational Change, Comparative Education
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