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Chowdhury, Harun; Alam, Firoz – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2012
Developing nations including Bangladesh are significantly lagging behind the millennium development target due to the lack of science, technology and engineering education. Bangladesh as a least developing country has only 44 engineers per million people. Its technological education and gross domestic product growth are not collinear. Although…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Engineering Education, Engineering, Foreign Countries
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Wei, Bing – International Journal of Science Education, 2012
In China, science educators as a professional group were originally referred to as academic staff responsible for teaching the subject-based science teaching methods course at the related science departments at teachers' universities. In this study, a biographic method was used to approach the professional life of Zhixin Liu, who was a senior…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Theory Practice Relationship, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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Zhang, Qinqiong; Stephens, Max – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2013
This study involving 120 Australian and Chinese teachers introduces a construct of teacher capacity to analyse how teachers help students connect arithmetic learning and emerging algebraic thinking. Four criteria formed the basis of our construct of teacher capacity: knowledge of mathematics, interpretation of the intentions of official curriculum…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, National Curriculum, Curriculum Design
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Xu, Yuzhen; Wong, Hongbo – Chinese Education and Society, 2011
In an attempt to give a general but critical review of school-based curriculum development (SBCD) in China's new curriculum reform (NCR), this article discusses at length some issues remaining in SBCD, including misconceptions in Chinese discussions about SBCD, most significantly, the Chinese literal expression of the policy statement on…
Descriptors: Expertise, Curriculum Development, Position Papers, Policy Analysis
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Zheng, Hongying – Language Learning Journal, 2013
Over the last 20 years, the study of language teachers' beliefs has attracted much attention. One important strand of this research has been the exploration of the relationship between teachers' beliefs and their practice, generating a recurring research theme of identifying "consistency" and "inconsistency" between teachers'…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
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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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Yin, Hong-biao; Lee, John Chi-Kin – Chinese Education and Society, 2011
Compared with the rich exploration of teachers' emotional geographies in the West, there have been only a small number of studies conducted in Chinese societies that have adopted Hargreaves's emotional geographies to analyze human interactions in education. This study explores the nature of emotions felt by teachers during their interactions with…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Emotional Response, Educational Change
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Law, Wing-Wah – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2014
This article uses curriculum-making frameworks to analyse and reconstruct the Chinese curriculum-making model and unpack the dynamics, complexity and constraints of China's curriculum reform since the early 1990s. It argues that curriculum reform is China's main human capital development strategy for coping with the challenges of the 21st century,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Position Papers
Hollitt, Julie A. – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
This literature review interrogates current international writing about inclusive education (IE) in regional and remote settings, with explicit reference to Australian considerations, including the emergent National Curriculum. The task of this review has been to establish the types of knowledge reported about IE in minority, marginalized and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Rural Education, Learning Problems
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Lee, Chi-Kin John; Yin, Hong-Biao – Journal of Educational Change, 2011
In educational research, emotion has attracted substantial attention since the mid-1990s. While there are many studies of teacher emotion in educational change in the West, there is a remarkable dearth of such studies in China. This qualitative study attempts to address this issue by examining teachers' emotional experiences in the national…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Textbooks
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Halpin, David – Frontiers of Education in China, 2010
Both China and England require state-funded schools to teach a national curriculum. While policy congruence in terms of overall intention is apparent, there are major differences between each country's approach to systemic curriculum reform which highlight contrasting attitudes to how best to effect change in schools and widely differing views on…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design, Educational Change
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Zhao, Hongqin; Coombs, Steven; Zhou, Xing – Teacher Development, 2010
This paper draws upon research evidence obtained as metaphors from biographical narrative interviews of Mandarin teachers of English working in China, which has illustrated the problems of teachers adapting to change in Chinese schools. The research has attempted to explore teachers' professional adaptation under strenuous challenges, that is, the…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Figurative Language, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Li, Minglin – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2011
This paper, drawing on the theoretical framework of critical discourse analysis, examines the general goals and objectives of the national curriculum reform launched by the Ministry of Education in 2001 for Chinese primary schools. Four policy documents relevant to the curriculum reform are analyzed, including Chinese curriculum and English…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Hui, Anna N. N.; Lau, Sing – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2010
The present study sought to compare and contrast educational policies on creativity education in four Asian Chinese societies, namely mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan. It establishes five criteria on creativity education policy, including policies regarding legislation on creativity education, definitions of creativity, standard…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Creativity, Definitions
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Han, Xue; Wang, Hequn – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2010
This study examined the professional development opportunities that about eighty mathematics teachers of junior high schools were provided with in the national curriculum reform of China and explored how their beliefs in mathematics instruction and instructional practice were affected by the professional development opportunities available to…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Junior High Schools, Textbooks
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