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The Patriotic Education of China: Military Women's Social Stigma and Sexual Suffering in Revolution Era
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Chou, Szu-Nuo – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2021
The early twentieth century was a unique period of time in China's contemporary history. It has been marked as the beginning of China's modernization and liberalization. The circumstances and the long-term impacts of this political reform were certainly disputed. China's schooling materials mostly only indicate the bright side of the social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Military Personnel, Females, Social Bias
The Representation of Teachers in Taiwanese Children's Literature, 1960-2012
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Yau, Jia-ling Charlene – Children's Literature in Education, 2015
This study investigates the images of teachers presented in Taiwanese children's books published between 1960 and 2012 using the narrative theory outlined by Nikolajeva ("Child Lit Assoc Q," 28(1):5-16, 2003). A purposive sample based upon the portrayal of school life is applied. One hundred and one books were identified as texts in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Literature, Teachers, Teacher Role
An Exploration of the Aesthetics of an Oral History Performance Developed in the Classroom
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Wang, Wan-Jung – Research in Drama Education, 2010
This paper aims to explore a range of aesthetic aspects involved in the devising and production processes of oral history performance in a classroom setting. It touches upon the ethical dimension of aesthetics employing the Confucianist Wang Yang Ming's aesthetic philosophy and Buber's theories of relation as the theoretical frames. The devising…
Descriptors: Oral History, Personal Narratives, Ethics, Aesthetics
"Talking like a Book?" Socioeconomic Differences of Maternal Conversational Styles in Co-Constructing Personal Narratives with Young Taiwanese Children
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Lai, Wen-Feng – Early Child Development and Care, 2010
The study investigated how Taiwanese mothers with different socioeconomic statuses (SES) co-constructed personal experience with their children in narrative conversations. Forty dyads recruited in Taiwan participated in the study, half from middle-class families and half from the working-class. Narrative conversations in Mandarin Chinese were…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Speech Communication, Mothers, Foreign Countries
Content Analysis of Free-Response Narratives to Personal Meanings of Death among Chinese Children and Adolescents
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Yang, Shu Ching; Chen, Shih-Fen – Death Studies, 2006
The study explores development of the concept of death among 204 Chinese children and adolescents and analyzes the relationships between death concept development and background variables. A coding manual for content analysis of death constructs adapted from R. A. Neimeyer et al. (1983) was used to classify each construct in the paragraphs written…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Adolescents, Content Analysis, Emotional Response
A Fusion of Horizons: Students' Encounters with "Will and Wave"
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Myers, James L. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2006
In a case study, I applied philosophical hermeneutic principles in an advanced level EFL writing class in Taiwan. A "fusion of horizons" occurs at the junction of two intertwined interpretations: one from our socio-historical tradition and the other from our experience of novel phenomena. I explored students' hermeneutic horizons in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives, Figurative Language, Hermeneutics