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Xu, Shuqin – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2018
Constructing national identity with collective memory based on traditional culture has long been a policy and research concern. China's recent revival of its traditional culture, previously denounced by the Communist Party of China (CPC), has caused diverse academic concerns. Yet few studies have addressed how the CPC-led state interacts with…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Traditionalism, Cultural Education, Politics of Education
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Wang, Yan; Liu, Xuan; Zhang, Zhenhong – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2018
The Chinese government has attached great importance to the development of e-learning since its emergence in the 1990s. As a consequence of the implementation of a series of policies, China has made significant achievements in the e-learning arena with respect to infrastructure construction, production of resources, academic education,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Educational History, Information Technology
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Kwak, Duck-Joo – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2016
This paper attempts to do a comparative study on two traditions of humanistic pedagogies, West and East, represented by the Socratic and the Confucian teachings. It is intended to put into question our common misunderstanding reflected in the stereotyped contrasts between the Socratic self and the Confucian self: an intellectualist vs. a moralist,…
Descriptors: Humanism, Confucianism, Educational Philosophy, Intercultural Communication
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Wu, Jinting; Wenning, Mario – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2016
It is part of a global trend today that new relationships are being forged between religion and society, between spirituality and materiality, giving rise to announcements that we live in a "postsecular" or "desecularized" world. Taking up two educational movements, the mindfulness movement in the West and the revival of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Confucianism, Metacognition, Religious Factors
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Kaland, Ole Johannes – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2020
This article focuses on Chinese state conceptualisations of the educated person, seen to be necessary for the continued national progress. Government campaigns provide clear narratives about the quality citizens that will ensure this will happen. Such narratives paradoxically also target rural people, migrant workers and their offspring for…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries, Economic Development, Rural Areas
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Mate, Susan; Mcdonald, Matthew; Morgan, Arthur; Hoang, Duc-Nhat; Das, Mita; Dinh, Nhung – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2017
This study considers the career identities of Vietnamese students studying at an offshore (Australian) university in Vietnam. The students had completed the first module of a new career development learning program called Career Passport. As part of the program, students were required to write a narrative on their 'career story' to reflect on…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Foreign Countries, College Students, Career Development
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Yuen, Allan H.; Park, Jae Hyung; Chen, Lu; Cheng, Miaoting – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2017
Our study examines digital equity in a cultural context. Many studies have used classic analytical variables such as socioeconomic status and gender to investigate the problem of unequal access to, and more recently differences in the use of, information and communication technology (ICT). The few studies that have explored cultural variables have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Access to Computers, Cultural Context
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Wei-Zhao Shi; Jingying Wang – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2017
University lecturers stress the importance of science and non-science students developing informed views of nature of science. However, few previous researches have conducted to explore students' NOS views within specific majors. Consequently, this research used the questionnaire of VNOS-D (View of Nature of Science, the version D) to assess the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Scientific Principles, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
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Lam, Chi-Ming – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2014
Nowadays, there is still a widely held view that the Chinese and Western modes of thought are quite distinct from each other. In particular, the Chinese mode of thought derived from Confucianism is considered as comparatively less rational than the Western one. In this article, I first argue that although the analogical mode of argumentation,…
Descriptors: Confucianism, Persuasive Discourse, Philosophy, Western Civilization
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Standish, Paul – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2014
The phrase "the two cultures debate" has a particular connotation in the British context. It was prompted by a lecture given in the 1950s by the novelist C.P. Snow. Snow's first career had been in science, and he drew on his inside knowledge of that domain in a sequence of novels, known collectively as "Strangers and…
Descriptors: Social Theories, Humanities, Intellectual Disciplines, Culture Conflict
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Jiang, Shuaipu – Commission for International Adult Education, 2022
Classroom instruction in China and in the United States have sharp differences. Typically, constructivist learning theory shapes American classroom instruction whereas Confucian educational culture shapes Chinese classroom instruction. Furthermore, typically, Chinese classrooms adopt a direct instructional approach whereas American classrooms…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Constructivism (Learning), Confucianism, Asian Culture
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Xu, Xing; Sit, Helena; Chen, Shen – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
This study addresses the issue of international education through a human development lens. Using a group of Chinese doctoral students in Australia as a case study, it adopts volunteer-employed photography (VEP) to tease out the negative and positive forces that influence students' developmental trajectories during their doctoral education.…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Doctoral Students, Asians, Foreign Countries
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H?ng, Ngô Vu Thu – Issues in Educational Research, 2019
Vietnam is undergoing a comprehensive educational reform. Innovation within the curriculum requires a content-based approach to be replaced by a competence-based approach in which critical thinking is stressed in educating primary school students. This study aims to determine the extent to which critical thinking is implemented in current primary…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Moral Development, Educational Change, Confucianism
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Yang, Jeong A.; Tan, Charlene – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2019
This article focuses on a major reform goal to advance a student-centric education in South Korea and the associated issues and challenges. This research study draws upon Wittgenstein's concept of world-picture that brings to the fore the cultural influences on policy enactment. Interview data with teachers and students in Korea revealed two main…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Student Centered Learning, Cultural Influences, Educational Policy
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Lu, Jinjin – Ethnography and Education, 2019
Confucianism has had a profound influence on Chinese learners' academic achievements, moral education and education for citizenship. It is often suggested that the influence of Confucianism leads to educational success. Situating the Confucian ideology in a Western educational setting in so far as how those involved in teaching and learning…
Descriptors: Confucianism, Learning Experience, Academic Achievement, Ethical Instruction
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