Comparative research into technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and policy transfer focuses primarily on the system level. This study was designed to extend the focus of research work to policy transfer at the institutional level. This article presents a project that investigated the German concept of peer review in TVET as a…

Pedagogical innovations have been diffusing unevenly through the Chinese education system as a result of the implementation of the New Curriculum Reforms. Drawing on large-scale linked teacher and principal survey data from the Gansu Survey of Children and Families, this article investigates the extent to which interlocking teacher networks, which…

Examines the treatment and education of juvenile offenders in two of the four types of Chinese juvenile correctional institutions, the reformatory and the work-study factory class. Discusses living conditions and food, discipline and punishments, informal peer surveillance, academic and vocational instruction, language of instruction, family…