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Lee, Jeong-Kyu – Online Submission, 2017
This article discusses relevance between education fever and happiness from the viewpoint of Korean higher education. To review this study systematically, three research questions are addressed. First, what is education fever from the viewpoint of the Korean people? Second, what are relations between education fever and happiness? Last, can…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Higher Education, Correlation
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Driskill, Trish; Rankin, Robert – Accounting Education, 2020
As China advances, attitudes about ethical reasoning will continue to evolve from norms rooted in Confucianism, guanxi, and collectivism toward attitudes consistent with developed countries. With the lack of understanding of reasoning in China, business executives, professors, and students from developed countries rely on their society's cultural…
Descriptors: Ethics, Confucianism, Collectivism, Asian Culture
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Sibthorp, Jim; Funnell, Aaron; Riley, Mike; Chan, Bacon; Meerts-Brandsma, Lisa – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2018
Outdoor adventure education (OAE) is philosophically rooted in Western values, yet it has been implemented in non-Western cultures, such as East Asia. This paper examines how OAE functions in East Asia, through data from Hong Kong. Although some cultural differences are clear, there is no compelling evidence that OAE cannot provide benefits in…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Foreign Countries, Adventure Education, Cultural Differences
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Misiaszek, Greg William – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2018
As a full-time foreign faculty member in the Chinese Normal university system for the past five years, I analyze the contested terrain of being a critical, Freirean educator/researcher as an insider and outsider of Chinese and Western academic systems and societies overall. This autobiographical analysis is within the contexts of China's academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Quality, Cultural Influences
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Hailong, Zhu – English Language Teaching, 2019
The image of country is overall impression and evaluation of the country itself given by countries and people at home and abroad. It is a concrete expression of the country's strategic resources and overall strength. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, its national image has evolved over the past 70 years. It has realized the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Change, Social Systems, Foreign Policy
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Lu, Ying; Jover, Gonzalo – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2019
The historical debate between a liberal orientation of university education and a university education with a more practical orientation has been reproduced by defenders and detractors of the course that is being adopted by the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). Instead of resorting to a dichotomous view of these two arguments, this article…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Confucianism, World Views, Universities
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Zhao, Weili – Curriculum Inquiry, 2020
Epistemicide happens when globalizing West-centric discourses and practices dominate non-Western societies, suppressing and killing the latter's cultural systems of knowledge production. Though scholars worldwide are starting to recognize this fact, China is still forcefully transplanting Western policies and practices in the name of "going…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Epistemology, Foreign Countries
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Tan, Charlene – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2017
This article proposes a Confucian conception of critical thinking by focussing on the notion of judgement. It is argued that the attainment of the Confucian ideal of "li" (normative behaviours) necessitates and promotes critical thinking in at least two ways. First, the observance of "li" requires the individual to exercise…
Descriptors: Confucianism, Critical Thinking, Ethics, Decision Making
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Ozolinš, Janis Talivaldis – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2017
A recurring theme in many places concerns the nurturing and maintenance of a civil society that is committed to justice, to human fulfilment and a community that actively pursues the good of all its members. The creation of a civil society where there is respect for persons and a concern for the good of others is an important social aim and though…
Descriptors: Social Responsibility, Educational Philosophy, Western Civilization, Asian Culture
Meng, Kanglei – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examines Chinese educators' perceptions of effective leadership behaviors in order to determine how teachers in Chinese higher education define effectiveness and whether there is a correlation between this perception and leaders' gender. Factors considered included conscious and unconscious gender bias, Chinese culture, historical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Effectiveness, Administrator Attitudes, Higher Education
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Wang, Junju; Lin, Jia – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2019
For decades, the Confucian heritage culture (CHC) learner phenomenon has aroused the interest of researchers in different areas. However, few studies have focused on the attitudes of international students who study in the Chinese context. This article, therefore, explores how international students perceive traditional Chinese views on education,…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Attitudes, Confucianism, Positive Attitudes
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Ng, Grace – Christian Higher Education, 2019
Asian Americans are the fastest-growing population of any minority group in the United States (Lopez, Ruiz, & Patten, 2017). As colleges seek to become more diverse and increase their enrollment of minority students, educators need to understand the cultural dynamics that affect Asian Americans in the classroom. Because the Confucian values of…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Psychological Patterns, Minority Group Students, Confucianism
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Nguyen, Lan Thi; McDonald, Matthew; Mate, Susan; Taylor, Greig – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2018
The purpose of this paper is to advance the concept of narrative approaches to career counselling from a cross-cultural perspective by investigating the case of Vietnam. It offers an account of the sociocultural context of Vietnam as it shifts from its traditional Confucian and communist values to a modern globally integrated market economy.…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Confucianism
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Lam, Kelly Ka Lai; Zhou, Mingming – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
This review examined the relations between grit and academic achievement based on a meta-analysis of 137 studies yielding 156 dependent samples (N = 285,331). Using the robust variance estimation, we found that the correlations of overall grit level with academic achievement were generally weak to moderate (weighted r = 0.19). The correlation of…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Academic Persistence, Academic Achievement, Correlation
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Kim, Sung won; Cho, Hyunsun; Song, Minji – Educational Review, 2019
A few popular explanations attempt to argue for a weaker relationship between socioeconomic status (SES), parental involvement (PI), and achievement among Asian Americans compared to their white counterparts: Asian American students' Confucian culture, strong motivation for upward mobility as immigrants, unique forms of parental involvement…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Academic Achievement, High Achievement, Cultural Influences
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