China, the developing country with the largest and oldest public education system, is transforming its education system through a large-scale curriculum reform. The new national …
J Wu - Policy Futures in Education, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
This article explores the exam-oriented, ritualistic, and exemplary Chinese education system through a double-layered historical and ethnographic analysis. Firstly, I examine three …
L Guo - Comparative and International Education, 2013 - ojs.lib.uwo.ca
China, the developing country with the largest and oldest public education system, is transforming its education system through a nation-wide curriculum reform. This large-scale …
TD Curran - Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
In response to an essay by Prof Wu Zongjie that was published in the Journal of Curriculum Studies [43 (5),(2011), 569–590], I argue that, despite dramatic changes that have taken …
CKK Chan, N Rao - Revisiting the Chinese learner: Changing contexts …, 2009 - Springer
In the introduction to this volume, we highlighted the need to revisit the Chinese learner against the background of socioeconomic and technological changes, shifts in learning …
H Wang - Chinese education models in a global age, 2016 - Springer
Recent education reforms in the United States have been focusing on raising students' academic standards through high-stakes testing in order to enhance their international …
H Yin - Asia Pacific Education Review, 2013 - Springer
Educational change is intrinsically bound to the cultural characteristics of the society. However, the relationship between educational change and societal culture is rarely …
L Guo - Comparative and International Education, 2012 - search.proquest.com
China, the developing country with the largest and oldest public education system, is transforming its education system through a nation-wide curriculum reform. This large-scale …
C Tan - Comparative Education, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
China's recent education reforms are a result of selective policy borrowing from 'the West'. Although comparativists have highlighted the importance of cultural context in policy …