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Zhou, Huiquan; Shang, Xinyuan – Frontiers of Education in China, 2011
The brain-drain caused by imbalanced economic development has produced a lack of qualified teachers in rural China. Short-term volunteer teaching has emerged as a response. Despite the popularity of such programs, little systematic data have been gathered regarding their strengths and weaknesses. A short-term volunteer teaching program was…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries, Teaching Experience
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Shao, Kun; Tamashiro, Roy – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2013
In studies conducted in the USA, teacher dispositional factors such as enthusiasm, professional esteem and learning motivation often emerge as the most significant variables affecting student learning and achievement from the primary grades through higher education. Do these factors play as significant a role in student learning and achievement in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Teacher Characteristics, Cultural Differences
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Jackowicz, Stephen, Ed.; Sahin, Ismail, Ed. – Online Submission, 2021
"Proceedings of International Conference on Humanities, Social and Education Sciences" includes full papers presented at the International Conference on Humanities, Social and Education Sciences (iHSES) which took place on April 22-25, 2021 in New York, USA-www.ihses.net. The aim of the conference is to offer opportunities to share…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Handheld Devices, Audio Equipment, Foreign Students
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Guo, Shibao; Guo, Yan; Beckett, Gulbahar; Li, Qing; Guo, Linyuan – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2013
Fuelled by forces of globalisation, China has gradually shifted from a centrally planned economy to the "socialist market economy". This study examines changes in Chinese education under globalisation and market economy, focusing on the teaching and living conditions of teachers. The study reveals that the profound transformation of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Faculty Workload, Social Status
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Finkelstein, Martin; Cummings, William – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2012
This study focuses on aspects of the Changing Academic Profession survey of 2007-08 that describe the place of faculty in their institutions. The authors examine the following aspects of institutional life: (1) the faculty role in institutional governance; (2) who evaluates their teaching and research; (3) the locus of their loyalties as between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Academic Rank (Professional), Teaching Conditions
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Wang, Dan – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2011
China has been promoting student-centered education under the current curriculum reform. However, teachers in rural schools continue to exercise tight control of the classroom, with lecturing taking up most of the class time. Drawing on ethnographic observation and interviews in a rural elementary school, this study analyzes the rationale of rural…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Rural Schools, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Du, Ping; Lai, Manhong; Lo, Leslie N. K. – Frontiers of Education in China, 2010
Research on work life and job satisfaction of university professors is becoming an important research issue in the field of higher education. This study used questionnaires administered to 1 770 teachers from different levels, types, and academic fields of Chinese universities to investigate job satisfaction among university professors and the…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Organizational Climate, Career Development, Teacher Salaries
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Qu, Zhengwei – Frontiers of Education in China, 2008
When we tend to analyze the living conditions of teachers, system arrangement and identity identification can be considered a significant method for analysis. In reality, there appears a phenomenon of overlapping identification in the identity identification of teachers in China, which leads to plural selections in the identification manners of…
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), Foreign Countries, Teachers, Teaching Conditions
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Chen, Junjun – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2010
This study examined teacher job satisfaction in Chinese middle schools from the aspects of school, community, and life and the relationships between these factors and teacher moving. A convenience sample of 294 teachers was approached through a 35-item questionnaire. Data were analyzed using SPSS. Three major results were found: (1) Chinese middle…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Middle Schools, Income, Job Satisfaction
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Ozturgut, Osman – Current Issues in Education, 2011
The economic modernization drive of the 21st century has not only fostered the growth of a market economy but has also created the need for a structural change in education (Zha, 2006). Mok (2009) explains that when the Chinese government realized that the state alone could not keep up with the increasing demand for higher education, it allowed…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Free Enterprise System, Integrity, Educational Quality
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Li, Shuang – International Education Studies, 2010
Based on some problems lying in current rural secondary education taking Ling County as an example, this paper proves the necessity and feasibility of moving rural secondary schools to town in the current condition: it is an objective demand by the changes in students; it is a necessary demand to optimize resource allocation and to improve…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Secondary Schools, Foreign Countries, Urban Areas
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Gao, Xuesong; Trent, John – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2009
In this paper, we report on an inquiry exploring the experiences of 10 mainland Chinese student teachers of English so as to understand why they came to Hong Kong for a teacher education programme. The study revealed that these students were largely attracted to teaching in Hong Kong because of its extrinsic benefits such as professional…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Teaching (Occupation), Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Li, Yao; Whalley, John; Zhang, Shunming; Zhao, Xiliang – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2008
This paper documents the major transformation of higher education that has been underway in China since 1999 and evaluates its potential global impacts. Reflecting China's commitment to continued high growth through quality upgrading and the production of ideas and intellectual property as set out in both the 10th (2001-2005) and 11th (2006-2010)…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Higher Education, Intellectual Property, Foreign Countries
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Yong, Zhang; Yue, Yu – Chinese Education and Society, 2007
An increasing number of studies show that teachers have one of the most stressful occupations. Long-term work stress may lead to burnout, which gravely affects teachers' physical and mental health, lowers the quality of their work, and, in turn, impairs their students' physical and mental health and development and imperils the sound development…
Descriptors: Teacher Burnout, Mental Health, Elementary School Teachers, Stress Variables
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Xiaofu, Pan; Qiwen, Qin – Chinese Education and Society, 2007
This study investigates and analyzes the relation between the secondary school organizational climate and teacher job satisfaction using a self-designed school organizational climate scale based on studies in China and abroad. The findings show that except for interpersonal factors there are significant correlations between the various factors of…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Foreign Countries, Organizational Climate, Correlation
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