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Wang, Fuyan; Tang, Hanwei; Shen, Wei; Wang, Yan; Lo, Leslie N. K. – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2023
A recently introduced national policy in China, "Opinions on Promoting the Rotation of Principals and Teachers in Compulsory Education Schools within the County/District," mandates teacher mobility between urban and rural areas, thereby ensuring a more equitable distribution of human resources. This study investigated a key but…
Descriptors: Influences, Foreign Countries, Faculty Mobility, Educational Policy
Yang, Chengning; Yuan, Jiahao – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2023
At present, COVID-19 is attracting people's attention worldwide. The rapid spread of the epidemic has had a very large impact on the education sector. Many countries have organized students to engage in online learning and study at home. As a country was seriously affected in the early stage of the epidemic, after a period of hard work, China has…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Change, COVID-19, Pandemics
Yang, Miaoyan; Xu, Cora Lingling – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2022
Adopting empowerment as a theoretical lens, this paper examines how a combination of structural (particularly class background) and individual factors (particularly empowering agents and a strong personal will to achieve) have contributed to school success and ethnic identity formation of minority students in China. Our longitudinal study on a…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Social Class, Individual Characteristics, Minority Group Students
Lei, Man; Medwell, Jane – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2020
The term Professional Development (PD) was first introduced to English teachers in China in the Revised Curriculum Standards (RCS). For PD to be effective, the teachers and policymakers involved in its implementation need to have a common understanding of its scope and purposes, but little is known about how English teachers in China understand…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
Jokila, Suvi – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2015
The aim of this paper is to explore Appadurai's ideas of global cultural flows in the context of the internationalization of higher education in China. Studies on the internationalization of higher education have increased with the expansion of international activities on university campuses; however, more theoretical analysis in the field is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Global Approach, Developing Nations
Chan, Wing Kit; Ngok, Kinglun – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2011
Since 1999, the expansion of higher education has been viewed as an important step in accumulating human capital for China that was to gradually open its domestic sectors to the global market at a turbulent time at the turn of the century. Recent studies suggest that the improvement of human capital has succeeded in preparing China with a solid…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Human Capital, Equal Education, Disadvantaged
Mok, Ka Ho; Wong, Yu Cheung; Guo, Yu – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2011
In July 2010, the State Council of the People's Republic of China published an "Outline for National Educational Development" with a strong conviction to transform China from an economic power into a country of "soft power" and "strength in human resources". In order to realize such a policy goal, the Chinese…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Creativity, Human Capital, Educational Quality
He, An E. – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2011
Educational decentralization is a worldwide phenomenon, which takes different forms and leads to different outcomes in different socio-economic contexts. Taking Chinese-English bilingual education in Mainland China as an exemplar, this study examines how the decentralization of education has worked in China in the past two decades, and what…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Administrative Organization, Foreign Countries, Bilingualism
Zhao, Yong; Zhang, Gaoming; Yang, Wenzhong; Kirkland, David; Han, Xue; Zhang, Jianwei – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2008
This article examines one major research journal from China and one from the United States. The study compares the two journals with regard to three questions: 1) Who is doing research published in the journals? 2) What are the major issues and concerns represented in the journals? 3) What research methodologies are favoured in the journals? The…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Methodology, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis