Chinese Education in Transition
Author: Julia Kwong
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 0773503412
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Business and Management Education in China
Author: Ilan Alon
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 981270342X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis pioneering book offers a unique constellation of essays focused on the important social and economic changes affecting educational institutions in China. It provides an in-depth examination of the potential and obstacles for business and management education in the world''s second largest economy and most populated country. This volume is an essential resource for anyone with an interest in teaching, developing a new program, or entering into a joint venture in China. A wide range of topics, such as economic transition, pedagogical issues, professional training and alliance formation, are discussed from the standpoint of deans, educators, directors and consultants of educational institutions hailing from both the East and the West.
Learners in Transition
Author: Yoke Sim Fong
Publisher:
Published: 2018-11-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781138304055
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on over 20 years' experience teaching English courses to Chinese learners, this book highlights key findings to aid understanding, improve teachers' practice and offer pedagogical recommendations. The insights are useful for pre- and in-service teachers of English and researchers interested in language education around the world.
Rural Education in China’s Social Transition
Author: Peggy A. Kong
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-12-17
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1134793960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the first decade of the twenty-first century, the People's Republic of China experienced dramatic growth and expansion that altered the educational environment of children. Rapid economic development increased prosperity and educational opportunities for children expanded in a wealthier society. Yet, a by-product of rising wealth was rising inequality. While the children of the emerging urban middle and elite classes enjoyed new prosperity, the children of hte persistently poor in rural communities continued to experience challenges such as food insecurity, illness, hardships of family separation, and migrant life on the margins of the cities. This time period saw a large resource gap emerge between the home conditions of poor rural children compared with those of their wealthier urban counterparts. This book highlights the complexities China has experienced in seeking to extend full educational access to rural children— including rural- to- urban migrant and ethnic minority children—during a momentous period in China. Chapters delve into the experiences, perceptions, strategies, and diffi culties of rural- origin children and their families in the school system, and lay bare the challenges of policy initiatives designed to support rural education. We hope the experiences detailed here will be of interest to students and scholars of rural educational policy and practice in China and worldwide.
Chinese Youth in Transition
Author: Jieying Xi
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780754643692
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeaturing original research findings from a key Chinese national research centre, this book provides researchers with cutting-edge, reliable and comprehensive information about children and youth in modern China. Coverage spans a wide range of critical issues, including: children's physical and mental development, leisure and consumption choices and juvenile delinquency.
Two Decades of Basic Education in Rural China
Author: Lu Wang
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-09-14
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9811021201
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines how educational change has progressed in three contrasting areas spread across China since 1990, exploring key issues concerning rural education in poor, rich and minority areas. Of the three areas covered in this book, the first is a rich one near Beijing; the second is in the northwest in Shanxi on the Loess plateau; and the third is in Sichuan on the high plateau leading to Tibet. Central issues include the impact of large-scale demographic change and migration, with increasing numbers of left-behind children in sending areas, and large increases in the numbers of inbound migrants in receiving areas; dramatic increases in the boarding of children in rural areas as a result of rural school merge; changing patterns of teacher deployment; recentralization of responsibilities for school financing; and growing concerns regarding horizontal and vertical inequalities in both access and participation.
Chinese Social Policy in a Time of Transition
Author: Douglas Besharov
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-05-17
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 0199990336
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of China's spectacular economic growth is well known. Less well known is the country's equally dramatic, though not always equally successful, social policy transition. Between the mid- 1990s and mid-2000s---the focal period for this book---China's central government went a long way toward consolidating the social policy framework that had gradually emerged in piecemeal fashion during the initial phases of economic liberalization. Major policy decisions during the focal period included adopting a single national pension plan for urban areas, standardizing unemployment insurance, (re)establishing nationwide rural health care coverage, opening urban education systems to children of rural migrants, introducing trilingual education policies in ethnic minority regions, expanding college enrolment, addressing the challenge of HIV/AIDS more comprehensively, and equalizing social welfare spending across provinces, among others. Unresolved is the direction of policy in the face of longer-term industrial and demographic trends---and the possibility of a chronically weak global economy. Chinese Social Policy in a Time of Transition offers scholars, practitioners, students, and policymakers a foundation from which to explore those issues based on a composite snapshot of Chinese social policy at its point of greatest maturation prior to the 2007 global crisis.
Higher Education, Meritocracy and Inequality in China
Author: Ye Liu
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-10-08
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9811015880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book investigates the changing opportunities in higher education for different social groups during China’s transition from the socialist regime to a market economy. The first part of the book provides a historical and comparative analysis of the development of the idea of meritocracy, since its early origins in China, and in more recent western thought. The second part then explores higher education reforms in China, the part played by supposedly meritocratic forms of selection, and the implications of these for social mobility. Based on original empirical data, Ye Liu sheds light on the socio-economic, gender and geographical inequalities behind the meritocratic façade of the Gaokao (高考). Liu argues that the Chinese philosophical belief in education-based meritocracy had a modern makeover in the Gaokao, and that this ideology induces working-class and rural students to believe in upward social mobility through higher education. When the Gaokao broke the promise of status improvement for rural students, they turned to the Chinese Communist Party and sought political connections by actively applying for its membership. This book reveals a bleak picture of visible and invisible inequality in terms of access to and participation in higher education in contemporary China. Written in an accessible style, it offers a valuable resource for researchers and non-specialist readers alike.
The Formulation and Transition of China's Education Policy from 1978 to 2007
Author: Wen Wen
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9787535188687
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearners in Transition
Author: Yoke Sim Fong
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-26
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 1351395459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the number of Chinese students learning English increases worldwide, the need for teachers to understand the characteristics and challenges facing this group of learners grows. This is particularly true for those students moving from an English as a Foreign Language context to an English as a Second Language/International Language one where they experience academic, linguistic and sociocultural transitions. Drawing on over 20 years’ experience teaching English courses to Chinese learners, the author aims to highlight key findings to aid understanding, improve teachers’ practice and offer pedagogical recommendations. Using students’ voices, the book covers: how the traditional Chinese culture of learning plays a role; how new learning contexts provide opportunities and empowerment; how learners’ beliefs and strategies are interconnected; how their motivation and identity underscore the power of real and imagined communities, and finally, that affect matters, showing how learners are propelled by the trajectory of their emotions. The book cites from the rich data collected over a five-year period to authenticate the findings and recommendations but also to give voice to this group of learners to challenge the stereotype of the passive "Chinese learner". The essential insights contained within are useful for pre- and in-service teachers of English and researchers interested in language education around the world.
