Educational Policy Borrowing in China: Looking West or Looking East?

ISBN-13: 9781138576032 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 202 str.

Tan, Charlene (National Institute of Education, Singapore)

Opis

This book critically discusses China’s borrowing from the West through its current educational reform. It offers new insights into China’s educational borrowing from the West and international implications on cross-cultural educational transfer for academics, policymakers and educators.

Spis treści

Preface

1. Concepts, Theories, and Models of Educational Policy Borrowing

2. Educational Policy Borrowing in China: Historical Perspectives

3. Introduction to the New Curriculum Reform in China

4. Looking West: Chinese Perceptions of the New Curriculum Reform

5. The New Curriculum Reform in the Classroom

6. Constructivism and Postmodernism for Education in China: A Critique

7. Looking East: Confucian Influences on Chinese Education

8. When East Meets West: Cultural Scripts, Indigenisation and the ‘Teacher-Directed, Student-Engaged’ Approach

9. Surprises and Paradoxes in China’s Education Reform: The Example of Dulangkou Secondary School

10. Conclusions and Implications

O autorze

Charlene Tan is an associate professor at the Policy and Leadership Studies Academic Group, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. A visiting scholar at the Institute of International and Comparative Education, Beijing Normal University in 2013, she has been teaching school leaders, teachers and administrators from various parts of China since 2008.