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Yi An – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation examines a century of Chinese dancers' bodily citizenship from the 1920s to the 2020s with emphasis on accounts of dance instruction and artistic exchange at the Beijing Dance Academy through a review of historical dance photo and newspaper archives, data collection of lived experiences in artistic practice, and oral history…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dance Education, Performance, Human Body
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Kus, Zafer – Journal of Social Science Education, 2015
The current study aims to investigate social studies and science teachers' attitudes and classroom practices associated with controversial issues. The study is a qualitative research based on data collected through interviews and observation. Social studies and Science teachers participated in the current study which was conducted in Kirsehir, a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Studies, Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Sung, Pei-Fen; Yang, Meng-Li – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2009
National identity is one of the most important forms of ideology that affects human behaviours. Yet, the issue of whether it influences history teachers' subject matter knowledge or teaching practice is overlooked most of the time. With regime change in Taiwan, history curriculum and textbooks are no longer dominated by a China-centred narrative;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nationalism, Teacher Characteristics, Secondary School Teachers
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Lo, Joe Tin-Yau; Merryfield, Merry M. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2008
Developing national identity is a goal of schools around the world. Historically this goal has been especially important for nations coming out of colonization as new governments seek to unify their nations and promote national identities. From 1842 to 1997, Hong Kong was a British colony whose excellent harbor made it a linchpin of British…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nationalism, Asian History, Asian Culture