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Liu, Cui – Education and Urban Society, 2019
The university-city relations are changing along with the engagement of universities in public service beyond teaching and research and the dependence of cities on networks rather than enclosure to promote urban competitiveness. Taking China as an example, this article discusses the challenges and tensions of university-city interaction in the…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Urban Universities, Municipalities, Foreign Countries
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Chen, Jiexiu – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2022
Since the restoration of the "Gaokao" (College Entrance Examination) in 1977 and the nationwide higher education expansion that started in 1998, millions of rural students have enrolled in urban universities. Though Chinese rural students' educational trajectories have received extensive attention, their subjective experiences in the…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Academic Aspiration, Student Attitudes, Preferences
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Mulvey, Benjamin; Wright, Ewan – British Educational Research Journal, 2022
The term "neijuan" (in English 'involution') has captured feelings of perpetual competition and anxiety among university students in China preparing for their post-graduation careers. In this article, we develop a neo-Weberian reading of "neijuan" to construct a framework using positional conflict theory and the concept of…
Descriptors: Competition, Social Differences, Social Class, Foreign Countries
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Harvey, Marina; Vlachopoulos, Panos – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2020
A growing body of research supports the learning and teaching of reflective practice in higher education; however, the application of reflective skills beyond the classroom, and specifically in professional development, is underdeveloped. While the value of reflective practice may not be clearly apparent for academic and professional staff,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Reflective Teaching, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
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Liu, Laura Blythe; Ye, Juyan – Teacher Development, 2019
Global experiences are a significant form of professional development for teacher education faculty preparing teachers to support twenty-first-century diverse classrooms. This case study examined the international professional development (IPD) experiences of teacher education faculty at a Chinese university as involving personal-professional,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Global Approach, Teacher Educators, Confucianism
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Xu, Linna – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
Based on the job demand-resources framework, the present study investigates the association between teacher-researcher role conflict and burnout (including emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and reduced personal accomplishment) among Chinese university teachers by testing the moderating effects of perceived organizational support (POS) and…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Researchers, Conflict, Teacher Burnout
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Dai, Yuanyuan – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2019
By using the concept of "alignment," this case study explores how a Sino-U.S. university partnership creates university transformation through the multitude of interconnections both within and between the two universities. The study investigates how the contextualized alignments of both universities co-shape and are impacted by the…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, International Cooperation, Universities, Organizational Change
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Liu, Laura Blythe – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2017
Globally, teachers are trained to educate and assess children through matrices based on comparative competition, a practice that thrives on ranking. In an era of glocalization, how might educational systems cultivate classroom connections embracing diverse student gifts? This arts-based narrative inquiry explores fatherly life lessons of 17…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Urban Universities
Tian, Jie – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The foreign/world language (FL/WL) profession has become more concerned with intercultural dimensions of language teaching and learning. Various models and theories have been suggested from both inside and outside the language education field to help teachers understand the intercultural dimensions in teaching and improve their practices regarding…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Chen, Qiuxian; Kettle, Margaret; Klenowski, Val; May, Lyn – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2013
Formative assessment is increasingly being implemented through policy initiatives in Chinese educational contexts. As an approach to assessment, formative assessment derives many of its key principles from Western contexts, notably through the work of scholars in the UK, the USA and Australia. The question for this paper is the ways that formative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Formative Evaluation, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction