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Jin, Jing; Wang, Cathy Yue – Children's Literature in Education, 2023
As a child god from Chinese legends, the figure of Nezha has a strong appeal to children, and his story has been adapted to various media. This article examines Nezha's image in three animated films, exploring how this figure has been altered to represent Chinese children and youth and symbolize their subjectivity. From a revolutionary hero to a…
Descriptors: Social Change, Social Systems, Asian Culture, Films
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Yoshie Tomozumi Nakamura; Mayuko Horimoto; Jessica Hinshaw – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2024
The purpose of the study is to understand how Japanese women become social entrepreneurs. The challenges in fostering women's entrepreneurship include socio-cultural traditional views on women's roles and expectations and insufficient support systems. Despite such challenges, the rise of Japanese women as social entrepreneurs has been observed in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Japanese, Asian Culture, Females
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Li, Jian; Eryong, Xue – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2020
This study concentrates on exploring the 'logic' of modern universities in China-a working concept that promotes a more in-depth discourse on the implicit illustrations of the 'logic' of universities in contemporary China. Drawing on the logic model, we explore the conceptualization of the 'logic' of university and examine how the concept of…
Descriptors: Universities, College Students, Logical Thinking, Models
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Ning, Dali – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2020
Slogan has a sound mass base in China for thousands of years, functioning as guidelines for civic practice. Even today, Chinese slogans are often employed by the government to promote policies and socio-cultural values. This paper, adopting an ecolinguistic approach, explores the development of Chinese slogans during the four economic stages since…
Descriptors: Propaganda, Political Attitudes, Social Change, Guidelines
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Parmenter, Trevor R. – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2014
From a Westerner's perspective of the place of people with a disability in Asian society, there are similarities and differences between the two societies. A major problem for the Asian countries is their lack of reliable disability prevalence data. The stigmatization of people with a disability remains an international problem and is not confined…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Asian Culture, Social Bias, Attitudes toward Disabilities
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Campbell, Anne; Uren, Marie – International Journal of Special Education, 2011
This study explores the effects of traditional beliefs, Confucian ideology, Chinese government policy and western influences on China's inclusion of people with a disability in the Chinese community in the 21st century. Using visual ethnography and an auto-ethnographic approach, the study examines data obtained over a period of five years to…
Descriptors: Social Attitudes, Ethnography, Disabilities, Foreign Countries