Although citizenship education (CE) has been widely addressed in many countries' curricula, few studies have sufficiently explored students' learning of official CE curriculum content. Accordingly, in this study, students' responses to the CE curriculum content are investigated in a constrained social context taking an agency perspective. Drawing…

This study explored the relationships between Chinese college students' perceptions of the classroom environment and some affective aspects in the study of mathematics. A total of 2529 students responded to three measures that were specifically designed to assess college students' perceptions of the mathematics classroom environment, their…

In March 2020, universities in China transitioned to online education in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and intensified the focus on collaboration in online learning. However, little is known about the impact of undertaking online collaborative learning (OCL) on student teachers' views about the process and about their own teaching and…

Teacher work engagement is essential for schools to achieve their educational objectives and student learning outcomes. Among all the influencing factors, supportive workplace resources from diverse sources such as distributed leadership, trust, and self-efficacy have been cited as important factors affecting teachers' engagement in their work.…

This study investigated how teachers in China perceived the effects of online instruction on mathematics learning and examined the challenges they encountered when the country shifted to online instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. We interviewed 152 mathematics teachers from 20 cities (municipalities) or provinces in China and adopted the…

This study investigates the mediating role of teachers' psychological empowerment and the moderating role of team psychological safety in the relationship between empowering leadership and teachers' innovative behavior in teaching and research groups (TR groups) as professional learning communities. In total, 507 teachers from 114 TR groups in…

Lifelong learning has become a global phenomenon that has significantly reshaped the conventional foundation of national education systems. Lifelong Learning has experienced an evolution that can be identified in two generations: it first emerged in the 1970s and then quickly gained significance and prevalence by the 1990s. There is general…

Principal preparation and training is generally viewed as an important contributor to school and system improvement. While the international evidence based on leadership and leadership development is extensive, contemporary accounts of principal preparation in a number of Asian countries are not widespread. This article outlines the findings from…

The research literature indicates that self-regulated learning can strengthen teacher agency in taking charge of their own learning and teaching, which is important when teachers encounter difficulties or challenges due to the requirements of educational and curriculum reform. This study explores how professional teacher development training…

The building of professional learning communities has been widely recognized as an effective strategy for schools wanting to improve student performance and enhance teachers' professional capacity. This study explored the relationship between leadership practices and professional learning communities, with a particular focus on the mediating role…

People are increasingly aware that metacognition can help us solve problems more effectively. Scholars believe that students' metacognition can be facilitated by promoting the interplay between the unlimited long work memory for holding schemas and limited work memory for processing ongoing activities. In this study, a workshop designed teacher…

Farmer education and learning have traditionally focused on developing practical farming skills and techniques. Meanwhile, studies on farmer learning and education have not adequately considered its social cognitive dimension. Hence, this study empirically examines farmers' perceptions of and interest in distance learning, involving 1284…

The purpose of this study was to explore Chinese university professors' decisions about ethical issues in classroom assessment. A survey with fifteen scenarios that describe professors' thoughts about ethics in assessment practices was administrated to 555 professors from 143 colleges and universities in 29 provinces in China. The results of the…

This paper examines the "imaginaries" taking place in New Engineering Education (NEE). The NEE is the most recent reform of the engineering education sector in China and is used to interrogate the more encompassing backdrop of the country's national imaginary, the "Chinese Dream." Further, this paper analyzes three important…

"Learning in Regular Classrooms" (LRC) has been the main strategy to universalize compulsory education for children with special educational needs in China after 1980s. Methods such as whole-class teaching combined with individual tutoring, differentiated teaching, and cooperative learning have been widely practiced in general classrooms…