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Rhoads, Robert A.; Hu, Juan – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2012
This article examines one of China's top universities--Renmin University--and changes in faculty life linked to internationalization and the push to build world-class universities. Employing academic culture as a theoretical lens and case-study methodology, the authors highlight several significant changes, as described in semi-structured…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Semi Structured Interviews
Luschei, Thomas F.; Zubaidah, Ida – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2012
As one of the world's largest and most diverse countries, Indonesia faces an enormous challenge as it seeks to upgrade the skills and knowledge of its widespread primary teacher workforce. This challenge is even more acute in remote rural areas, where practising teachers require specialized training to work in classrooms with children of different…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Educational Opportunities, Teaching Methods, Rural Areas
Ho, K. C.; Ge, Yun – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2011
There is considerable evidence to suggest that the human capital needs of the world city differ from what Robinson calls "ordinary cities" or what Markusen and associates term as "second tier cities". This path is blazed most notably in the field of world cities and the flow of skilled labour, in the work by Sassen and with…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Foreign Countries, Skilled Occupations, Skilled Workers
Hew, Khe Foon; Cheung, Wing Sum – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine students' affective commitment toward Singapore. Affective commitment refers to the sense of attachment to the nation state. The sample was taken from 286 students in a primary school. In the first section of the paper, we described the design of a Likert-type Affective Commitment to Country questionnaire.…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Validity, Questionnaires, Factor Analysis
Nyland, Berenice; Nyland, Chris; Yan, Zhang – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2011
Chinese children with an urban household registration ("hukou") normally attend subsidized preschools for three years prior to primary school. This is an experience available to relatively few of China's many millions of migrant children whose families are registered as rural residents but choose to migrate to urban areas. This paper…
Descriptors: Migrant Education, Migrant Children, Foreign Countries, Early Experience
Hayes, David – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2010
This article discusses English language teaching in Thailand through a biographical case study of a teacher working in a government school in the rural north-east. It explores a particular context of teaching and learning, showing how an individual comes to be a teacher and deals with the day-to-day demands of teaching, as well as reflecting on…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Change Agents, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Chae, Jae-Eun – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2010
This article explores the implications of the recent increase in older students at Korean universities dominated by younger students. A case study design is used to gain an in-depth understanding of experiences of older students in a Korean university. Semi-structured interviews of twelve older students, three professors, two administrators, and…
Descriptors: Interviews, College Students, Age Differences, Case Studies
Karp, Alexander; Lee, JungHang – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2010
This article addresses mathematics education in one of the most closed countries in the world, North Korea. It is known that ideology permeates all aspects of life in North Korea, but how exactly do the ideological and substantive mathematical components interact in mathematics education there? What concrete form does this interaction take in…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Ideology, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Halstead, J. Mark; Zhu, Chuanyan – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2009
Recent educational reforms in China have emphasized "learner autonomy", but this differs in crucial respects from the concept of "personal autonomy", which is a central goal of western liberal education. The many changes that have resulted from the opening up policy in China in the last 30 years include what has been called…
Descriptors: Individualism, High Schools, Class Activities, Personal Autonomy
Harris, Jessica; Zhao, Yong; Caldwell, Brian J. – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2009
In many ways, China's education system is quite different from systems of education in the West. Rich descriptions of school transformation, however, have revealed that the factors that fuelled transformation in schools in China are also evident in schools in Australia, England, Finland, Wales and the United States. This paper draws on an…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education
Cha, Minyoung; Chang, Wonsup – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2009
This qualitative case study was designed to provide an understanding of the work experience of Chinese college students in South Korea. A growing number of Chinese students are coming to South Korea for college education, and their aspirations for better work materialize into work experiences in South Korean businesses. In-depth interviews were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, College Students, Foreign Students
Price, Anne – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2009
Increasing the cultural and linguistic diversity of the teaching workforce in Australia was a key recommendation of the House of Representatives Standing Committee Inquiry into Teacher Education in their report, "Top of the Class" (written by L. Hartsuyker). The report reflects findings from national and international research that…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Prior Learning, Foreign Countries, Federal Government
Currie, Jan; Vidovich, Lesley; Yang, Rui – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2008
Singapore and Hong Kong are vying to be the principal educational hub for the Asia-Pacific region and have begun to compete with Australia, Britain, Canada and the USA in providing cross-border education. Although these four Anglo-American countries still dominate cross-border education, Singapore and Hong Kong hope to make inroads into this…
Descriptors: Governance, Foreign Countries, Accountability, Comparative Education
Liu, Yongbing – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2008
In this article, I analyse the initiation/response/follow-up (IRF) exchanges between teachers and students in teacher-fronted instruction by using transcribed classroom data. Adopting a social constructivist position, I examine ways in which teachers construct or reduce students' learning opportunities in these communications. Furthermore, I…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Classroom Communication, Foreign Countries, Chinese
Gibson, Robyn; Anderson, Michael – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2008
This article is an overview of arts education research in Australia. The authors argue that there is an urgent need for key arts organisations to form strategic partnerships with arts educators to provide stronger research in the area of arts education. This research base would enhance the ability of policymakers, arts administrators and arts…
Descriptors: International Studies, Art Education, Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education