This volume contains papers submitted to the 10th Annual Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, held in Kyustendil, Bulgaria, 12-15 June 2012. The overall goal of the 10th BCES conference is to facilitate discussion of different perspectives on international education providing a forum for scientific debate and constructive…

This booklet targets policymakers and educators with busy lives (especially those in developing countries) who may neither have the time nor the opportunity to read widely across all the issues raised herein. This publication looks at all forms of teacher learning, formal and informal, from teachers' own early schooling, through their training,…

This article addresses the reform and renewal of teaching training modes, discussing ways to build up a project of teacher training universities as academic support, and to use rural primary and secondary schools as training bases to improve the holistic quality of educational service by rural teachers of fundamental education.

Minority students' English learning is a special and an indispensable component of English education system in China. This article studies students' linguistic knowledge that live in Northwestern China--Gan Nan Autonomy State of Gan Su Province with majority population of Tibetan, mixed with Chinese and some Muslim. An analogous analysis is…

Explores the development of China's teacher education system, examining the driving force of economic reforms and inherent momentum of teacher education development. The teacher education system is undergoing a transformation to an open style with non-orientation. Diversified training models will be adopted in accordance with teachers' differing…

As China's teacher education moves from an enclosed, oriented pattern to an open system, many critical problems will surface. This paper examines: teacher professionalization, the conflict between the pedagogical and academic nature of teacher education, the enclosed and oriented system versus the open and non-oriented system, and strategies for…

This study explored issues related to teacher training in China. After a review of the historical and current development of Chinese teacher education, the paper discusses issues related to teacher training for adult education. Results of a survey indicated that teacher training for adult education in China was very inadequate. The system needed a…

Asserts that education in China appears to lag far behind what is expected of it, both in quantitative and qualitative terms, noting that teacher role and teacher competencies are attracting considerable attention. The paper focuses on the quality of education in China, China's traditional teacher education system, the new vision of teacher…

Introduces papers from a symposium on changes in preservice and inservice teacher education in China. The papers focus on institutional and policy development, reform in China's secondary teacher education, the development and reform of Chinese teacher education, the integration of preservice and inservice teacher education, and the training of…

China's Northwest Normal University provides preservice and inservice teacher training in northwest China. This paper reports how the university has set up an effective system to advance teaching practices and enhance innovations in teacher education for ethnic minorities, which contributes to the improvement of the quality and effectiveness of…

For the thirty-fifth year, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the national AECT Convention in Louisville, Kentucky. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two…

Teachers are normally trained to work effectively with one dominant culture. As such, they are poorly prepared to handle cultural differences; sometimes they simply define students from diverse culture and with learning difficulties as students at risk. This study reports a group of 100 Chinese in-service teachers' attitudes of cultural difference…

This paper describes preservice teacher education in China, focusing on tracks or programs for Chinese teacher education, the current situation, innovations and reform, and prospects for the future. Achievements in Chinese higher teacher training institutions over the past 10 years are noted. (SM)

Describes a teacher who applied an innovative pedagogy in her rural Chinese hometown, unfolding the complex, dangerous remaking of ideologies and power relations inherent in pedagogical reform as a microcosm of other concomitant changes in society at large. Reflects the inadequacy of teacher education in preparing teachers to survive the…

In order for pre-service teachers to fully understand what it means to choose teaching as a career, it is important for them to connect with experienced teachers who can share their experiences of what occurs within the walls of schools. Narrative accounts of teachers' experiences with students, parents, administrators and colleagues are an…