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Zhang, Qinqiong; Stephens, Max – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2016
In the official curriculum documents of many countries, statistical thinking have become part of the mainstream in school curriculum. We argue that teacher capacity is a key dimension in realizing essential goals for developing students' statistical literacy, reasoning and thinking in practical teaching. In this paper, a construct of Teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Teacher Characteristics, Statistics
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Chen, Xiangming; Wei, Ge; Jiang, Shuling – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2017
Previous research concerning teacher practical knowledge has revealed its epistemological foundations, content structure and research methodology, but little research examines its ethical dimension. Based on a four-year project in China, this study probes the ethical dimension of an experienced teacher's practical knowledge, explicated in a…
Descriptors: Ethics, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Epistemology
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Jingying Wang; Yue Zhang; Weizhao Shi – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2016
Scientific model has been advocated as a central role of teaching in science education reform all over the world, with the critical method to achieve one of the goals of science education to promote scientific models and modeling. To find the students' perceptions of cognitive level of physics models and their modeling mechanism, firstly, research…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, National Standards, Junior High School Students
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Abrahams, Ian; Homer, Matt; Sharpe, Rachael; Zhou, Mengyuan – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2015
Background: Despite the large body of literature regarding student misconceptions, there has been relatively little cross-cultural research to directly compare the prevalence of common scientific misconceptions amongst students from different cultural backgrounds. Whilst previous research does suggest the international nature of many…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Scientific Concepts, Misconceptions
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Yin, Hongbiao – Frontiers of Education in China, 2013
In China, the eighth round of national curriculum reform (NCR) is the most serious, systematic, and ambitious attempt to transform the basic education curriculum system since 1949. Through a review of the contexts, processes and outcomes of the implementation of the NCR from 2001-2011, this paper provides a further discussion on three pairs of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Global Approach
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Teo, Peter – TESL-EJ, 2017
This study focuses on teacher talk in the context of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching in China. Framed against China's current focus on "thinking, imagination and innovation" as stated in the National English Curriculum Standards (NECS), this paper reports the findings of a qualitative study aimed at understanding how the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, National Curriculum
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Creese, Brian; Gonzalez, Alvaro; Isaacs, Tina – Curriculum Journal, 2016
This paper sets out the main findings of the International Instructional Systems Study (IISS), conducted by the UCL Institute of Education and funded by the Center on International Education Benchmarking (CIEB). The study examined the instructional systems and intended curricula of six "high performing" countries and two US states. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Educational Practices, Educational Objectives
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Vong, Keang-ieng Peggy; Hu, Bi Ying; Xia, Yan-ping – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2015
A Chinese and a Swedish preschool teacher education programme were examined in search for commonalities and differences of the curriculum decision-making considerations involved in the respective programme revision process. Findings include: (1) the two programmes have shifted orientations and become similar, yet there was no fundamental…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Quality, Preschool Education, Correlation
Wang, Yehui; Bian, Yufang; Xin, Tao; Kher, Neelam; Houang, Richard T.; Schmidt, William H. – Online Submission, 2012
This study aimed to examine and track the transformations in the mathematics intended curriculum during the latest reform in China from a neutral and objective perspective. Following the document analysis used in TIMSS (the Third International Mathematics and Science Study), the results indicated that a more modern system of mathematics knowledge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Elementary School Mathematics, National Curriculum
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Henderson, Deborah; Mallan, Kerry; Allan, Cherrie – Curriculum and Teaching, 2013
This paper considers how Asia can be meaningfully studied and understood in the first national history curriculum to be implemented in Australia. Its focus is on how empathy might be conceptualised as part of the process of becoming 'Asia literate' and the ways in which an empathetic understanding can be developed in the Australian Curriculum:…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, National Curriculum, Teaching Methods, Asian Culture
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Ho, Li-Ching – Teachers College Record, 2017
Background/Context: There is a pressing need to consider how citizens should live together, especially in societies that are increasingly ethnically and politically diverse. Even though multicultural education is constructed very differently and serves very different purposes in different national contexts, relatively little attention has been…
Descriptors: Affordances, Barriers, Multicultural Education, Foreign Countries
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Yin, Hongbiao; Lee, John Chi-Kin; Wang, Wenlan – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2014
Since the mid-1980s, a global resurgence of large-scale reform in the field of education has been witnessed. Implementing these reforms has created many dilemmas for change leaders. Following a three-year qualitative research project, the present study explores the dilemmas leaders faced during the implementation of the national curriculum reform…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
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McNaught, Carmel; Lok, Beatrice; Yin, Hongbiao; Lee, John Chi-Kin; Song, Huan – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2014
Classroom experience is shaped by a number of factors. In this paper, we report a classroom observation study in China, illustrating regional variation in students' classroom learning experiences. Through comparing and contrasting observed classroom practices in three different regions in China (Chongqing, Hong Kong and Shanghai), the paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Comparative Analysis
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Sun, Zuodong; Leung, Bo Wah – International Journal of Music Education, 2014
China has been instituting national basic education curriculum reforms since 2001. This study provides an updated understanding of present-day, rural primary school music education in Northeastern China's Tonghua region. A total of 126 rural primary music teachers and 674 students from 28 primary schools in the region were surveyed using a…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Elementary School Students, Music Education, Foreign Countries
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Jin, Aijing – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2013
Background: Among the many changes occurring across Chinese society in the early years of the 21st century has been the construction and implementation of a new national curriculum which includes physical education (PE) as one of the main subject areas. Unlike the old PE curriculum with its sports performance-oriented criteria, the new curriculum…
Descriptors: Physical Education, National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation
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