Understanding The Professional Agency Of Female Language Teachers In A Chinese University

Author : Xiaolei Ruan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000523676

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Understanding the Professional Agency of Female Language Teachers in a Chinese University by Xiaolei Ruan Pdf

Centering on a qualitative study of three female English teachers in Shanghai, China, the book explores female language teachers' perceived discrepancies and agency exercised in their teaching, research and teacher learning practices. By adopting multiple research methods, such as narrative questionnaire, metaphor, timeline, interview and classroom observation, this study reveals that female language teachers’ agency is a dynamic entity manifested in the ongoing negotiation of agency belief, agency practice, and agency inclination, as well as the interaction of individual and the environment. Though there are certain limitations concerning representativeness and generalizability, the author provides a thick description of how female language teachers in China are exercising agency to fulfill their career development, which offers insightful suggestions to language education in both China and broader areas globally. The book will appeal to researchers studying teacher education and foreign (English) language teaching, university teachers, especially female foreign language teachers, PhD students and graduate students, as well as career women.

Author : Xin Gong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000545814

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Children’s Museums as a New Informal Learning Environment in China by Xin Gong Pdf

Based on solid theoretical and empirical analyses, this book provides a first and fresh introduction to the recent development of children’s museums in China, along with their educational and social impacts as an informal learning environment for children, families, and society in general. To understand the benefits of children’s museums and in providing stimulating, informal education to children, the book looks into the origin and historical development of these institutions and how they have been influenced by informal learning theory, museum education, and early childhood education while providing case studies of children’s museums in China and the learning that takes place in them. This research analyses the process of informal learning and provides guidance on ways of elevating children’s cognitive and noncognitive development in the informal space. Different stakeholders of children's museums, including parents and educators, practitioners and designers, researchers of informal education, early childhood education, and policy makers will benefit from the insights provided in this book.

Author : Xiumin Hong,Wenting Zhu,Qun Ma
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000569735

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Embracing the New Two-Child Policy Era by Xiumin Hong,Wenting Zhu,Qun Ma Pdf

Crafted from a research project that lasted for three years, this book examines the impacts of China’s universal two-child policy under the lens of education and focuses specifically on early childhood. This book not only provides number projection, but also the prediction and judgment of the supply and demand of service resources in early childhood education. It attempts to reveal the attitudes and views of families and stakeholders on the universal two-child policy and present the public's policy requirements for the quality of early childhood education. In addition, it analyses possible problems and challenges in current kindergarten layouts and resources allocation. Lastly, it aims to provide references and bases for formulating the plan that adapts to changes of Chinese preschoolers, supply guarantee of future early childhood education and the construction of public service system. Offering rich insights into the current and future status of education in China, this text will be of interest to students, scholars, and researchers of sociology, early childhood education, contemporary China studies, East Asian educational practices and policy.

Author : Hui Yu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000606805

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Migration and Educational Policymaking in China by Hui Yu Pdf

By concentrating on the topic of school enrolment policy for rural-to-urban migrant children in China, this book analyses the unequal power relations and structural inequalities that can appear in the context of education. The author complements current knowledge by applying theoretical resources of policy sociology, in particular the thinking of Pierre Bourdieu, into analysis of educational policymaking in the Chinese context. He takes a policy trajectory approach to trace the (unequal) power relations and structural inequalities invested and realised in the school enrolment policy. Rooted in rich qualitative data from five metropolises, he examines both external influences of politics, economy and public policy on educational policy agenda setting and discursive practices within the educational policy cycle, inherent in the post-2013 restrictive school enrolment policy. Structural constraints and agency in the local context are also explored, indicating that the intersectional effects of political, economic, and civic logic can result in differentiated modes of policy enactment. The study will be of interest to scholars, students, policymakers and practitioners in helping address policymaking and social justice in education for migrants and other marginalised groups.

Author : Hang Hu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000567892

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Deeper Learning by Hang Hu Pdf

Integrating brain science, cognitive psychology, education and information technology, the books studies how technology has promoted deeper learning on mathematics in Chinese primary schools. After introducing the theoretical basis, connotation and mechanism of deeper learning, the author fully explains its practice, including the composition of deeper learning teaching content, the development of digital resources, classroom teaching technology and teachers' professional development of deeper learning. He especially adopts multiple and interdisciplinary research methods, such as deeper learning "triangle evidence" paradigm, learning brain observation, education big data analysis, artificial intelligence education analysis, education action, and qualitative and quantitative research. On one hand, the book will give researchers of learning theory and pedagogy an in-depth understanding of what deeper learning is and why it provides a systematic theoretical system; on the other hand, it will also provide school practitioners with operational methods and cases to learn from.

Author : Yongmei Hu,Yipeng Tang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000533620

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Research on Investment Scale and Allocation Structure of Chinese Higher Education Finance by Yongmei Hu,Yipeng Tang Pdf

Based on a systematic literature review, the book aims to forecast the investment scale of Chinese higher education and the allocation structure of different types of higher education institutions in the next decade. The authors first introduce the complex setting of Chinese higher education finance, including the background and theoretical foundation, as well as an in-depth literature review. Via international comparative data, they explore the adequacy and equity of the financial resources. By applying quantitative methods, such as panel data analysis and time series analysis, they forecast the public investment scale in higher education and the allocation structure and proportion among different types of higher education institutions. In addition, the book investigates the standards of teaching funding and teacher research funding, which are considered the main funding resources of Chinese universities and individual teachers. As China has become the world’s largest country of higher education, "how to provide adequate and equal funds to meet the increasing demand" is of great interest to scholars and policymakers both from China and abroad. The book will also appeal to postgraduate students who would like to know the overall status of Chinese higher education finance.

Author : Feng Wei
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000520798

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Elasticity and Toughness by Feng Wei Pdf

This book examines minban teacher policies and their implementation in China between 1949 and 2000, when rural areas were in severe shortage of qualified teachers. During this period of time, minban teachers made great contributions to education, doing the same work as state-employed school teachers while receiving much lower salaries due to non-official status. With solid fieldwork on oral history of minban teachers and policy actors and deep examination of a wealth of policy documents in private and governmental archives, the author records the life history of minban teachers, the process of minban teacher policies, and the interaction between policies and individual strategies in M county (pseudonym), located in northern Jiangsu province of China. The book reveals many interesting and sometimes surprising findings about the characteristics of educational policy implementation in China. While China’s minban teacher policies have come to an end, rural education continues to be a major concern of policymakers and researchers alike. The book is an important piece of scholarship for the readers interested in rural education in China, and in how state, society, and culture interact to influence teacher policies and management in the Chinese context.

Author : Jin Chi,Eduardo Velez Bustillo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000514490

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Investment and Interventions to Improve the Quality of Education Systems by Jin Chi,Eduardo Velez Bustillo Pdf

Quality improvement is a major current goal of Education in China and this will be achieved through overall quality improvement of the education system as a whole, a situation that is also the case across the world. Deploying a cost-benefit analysis and multidisciplinary perspectives from education, economics, neurocognition, gender studies, child development, and international development, this book presents a range of critical interventions in education development and investment that have proven to be effective in many countries around the world. The book draws on theoretical and practical experience in the field of education investment and analyses key issues in China's early childhood education, early reading, girls' education, brain science application in international education, small-scale schools in low income areas and teacher education. Students and scholars of education and development and Chinese education will benefit from this title.

Author : Yang Frank Gong,Chun Lai,Jinghe Han,Chan Lu,Sihui Echo Ke
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832545089

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Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Foreign or Second Language: The Educational Psychology Perspective by Yang Frank Gong,Chun Lai,Jinghe Han,Chan Lu,Sihui Echo Ke Pdf

Over the past two decades, Chinese as a foreign or second language (CFL/CSL) has been increasingly taught and learnt as an important language both within and outside China. Studies in the field have attempted to address deep-seated tensions between existing educational ideologies, concepts, strategies, and approaches and student learning process and performance, and between existent teaching methods and techniques and the globalization of Chinese language education.

Author : Qiuming Lin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789819914067

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Agency Construction and Navigation in English Learning Stories by Qiuming Lin Pdf

This book presents a longitudinal research which covers a linguistic approach to understand and observe language learner agency. It makes connections between agency in discourse analyses and agency in applied linguistics by examining how learner agency is manifested in autobiographic oral narratives and influenced by contextual factors. This book also demonstrates that agency is not a fixed entity that English learners possess, but a dynamic construct constantly negotiated by the learners with the social world. It is the result of their identity positioning and repositioning within a complex and ever-changing context. Learner identities, either actual or imagined, are significantly correlated with their investment in English and their English learning process. This book sheds new light on teaching English as a foreign language and gives inspirations for enhancing English learners’ agency in contemporary context of China. As learner agency should be treated in a dynamic and process view, a low level of agency manifested in a particular period or in a certain context may not necessarily persist in later periods or extend to other contexts. Provided with supportive contextual conditions and taking on positive and powerful identities, language learners are well on the course for higher levels of agency.

Author : D. Jean Clandinin,Jukka Husu
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1308 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781526415462

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The SAGE Handbook of Research on Teacher Education by D. Jean Clandinin,Jukka Husu Pdf

The SAGE Handbook of Research on Teacher Education offers an ambitious and international overview of the current landscape of teacher education research, as well as the imagined futures. The two volumes are divided into sub-sections: Section One: Mapping the Landscape of Teacher Education Section Two: Learning Teacher Identity in Teacher Education Section Three: Learning Teacher Agency in Teacher Education Section Four: Learning Moral & Ethical Responsibilities of Teaching in Teacher Education Section Five: Learning to Negotiate Social, Political, and Cultural Responsibilities of Teaching in Teacher Education Section Six: Learning through Pedagogies in Teacher Education Section Seven: Learning the Contents of Teaching in Teacher Education Section Eight: Learning Professional Competencies in Teacher Education and throughout the Career Section Nine: Learning with and from Assessments in Teacher Education Section Ten: The Education and Learning of Teacher Educators Section Eleven: The Evolving Social and Political Contexts of Teacher Education Section Twelve: A Reflective Turn This handbook is a landmark collection for all those interested in current research in teacher education and the possibilities for how research can influence future teacher education practices and policies. Watch handbook editors D. Jean Clandinin and Jukka Husu and handbook working editorial board members Jerry Rosiek, Mistilina Sato and Auli Toom discuss key aspects of the new handbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yee8cZVakfc

Author : Hongzhi Yang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319159256

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Teacher Mediated Agency in Educational Reform in China by Hongzhi Yang Pdf

This book examines teacher agency in implementing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) curriculum reform in the Chinese university context. It theorizes the concept of teacher agency from a sociocultural theory perspective and draws on a study conducted in a conservative and less developed area in China. The book uses Engeström's activity theory and Vygotsky's concept of the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) to understand the nature and extent of teacher agency in adapting one’s teaching with respect to beliefs, knowledge and instructional practices. The study concludes that curriculum reform in China needs to shift from reliance on 'top-down' policies to 'bottom-up' implementation that mobilizes local understandings and practices. One of the implications of this study is that transformative teacher education programs aimed at developing teacher pedagogical agency require that teachers have ongoing opportunities to design, develop and evaluate curriculum-based mediational means.

Author : John Trent,Xuesong Gao,Mingyue Gu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400773929

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Language Teacher Education in a Multilingual Context by John Trent,Xuesong Gao,Mingyue Gu Pdf

This book provides a multifaceted, multilayered examination of the processes and challenges language teachers face in constructing their professional identities in multilingual contexts such as Hong Kong. It focuses on how professional and personal identities are enacted as individuals cross geographic, educational, and socio-cultural boundaries to become English language teachers in Hong Kong. It explores the construction of language teachers’ professional identities from multiple perspectives in multiple settings, including pre-service and in-service teachers from Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Western countries. Understanding the difficulties and challenges these language teachers face in their identity and professional development is of relevance to teachers and teacher educators, as well as those interested in becoming language teachers in multilingual contexts.

Author : María Luisa Zagalaz-Sánchez,Javier Cachón-Zagalaz,Daniil Shmatkov,María Angélica Castillo Cerda,Paula Queirós
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832541692

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Education and Social Factors by María Luisa Zagalaz-Sánchez,Javier Cachón-Zagalaz,Daniil Shmatkov,María Angélica Castillo Cerda,Paula Queirós Pdf

Author : Joseph LoBianco,Jane Orton,Gao Yihong
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847693860

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China and English by Joseph LoBianco,Jane Orton,Gao Yihong Pdf

It has been said there are more Chinese learning English than there are Americans. We all have a sense that the first decades of the third millennium, including the effects of the global financial recession, signal dramatic changes to the shape of the world to come. China’s emergence as a superpower is one of the few certainties in this rapidly changing world. What is less well realised is the critical role which China’s decisions about English will play in the world’s communication profile. This unique volume explores this question looking at the debates on identity, cultural values and communication practices. Taking a wide-ranging view and uniquely blending both Chinese and Western perspectives the volume explores the critically important cultural consequences of mass English learning in today’s world.