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Liu, Yang; Fang, Xiaoyi; Cai, Rong; Wu, Yang; Zhang, Yaofang – Frontiers of Education in China, 2009
This article employs qualitative research methods to explore the urban adaptation and adaptation processes of Chinese migrant children. Through twenty-one in-depth interviews with migrant children, the researchers discovered: The participant migrant children showed a fairly high level of adaptation to the city; their process of urban adaptation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Migrant Children, Adjustment (to Environment), Urban Areas
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Lao, Kaisheng – Frontiers of Education in China, 2009
During the past twenty years, higher education institutions in China have gained enormous rights due to both the streamlining of administration and the decentralization of the government. Their legal status has hence changed dramatically. However, the expansion of their rights has also brought about the possibility of higher education institutions…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Colleges
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Yan, Guangcai – Frontiers of Education in China, 2009
The rise and development of China's academic system is a process that started from "passively accepting Western Learning" to today's "catching up with Western Learning and even exceeding it". In the last century, China experienced a turbulent and unstable social environment in which academics and politics have always been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational History, Social Environment
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Zhang, Jijia; Lu, Aitao – Frontiers of Education in China, 2008
To summarize the widely dispersed literature concerning Chinese teachers' mental status, the present paper conducted a quantitative research synthesis with a focus on the current situation and development in teachers' mental disorders. On one hand, the results demonstrated that many critical problems existed in the exploration of this issue, such…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Mental Disorders, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis
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Xu, Jing – Frontiers of Education in China, 2008
Over the past decade higher education reforms in most European countries have been oriented towards creating a European Higher Education Area which is envisaged in the "Bologna Declaration." Based on an illustration of a variety of difficulties encountered higher education institutions in a wide range of participating countries, this…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Barriers
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Zhong, Chenyin – Frontiers of Education in China, 2008
As the teacher education in China gradually evolves from the closed one into an open one, and with the greater pressure from the competition among universities, the transformation of normal universities is an inevitable choice. The problems that normal universities need to face up to are the proper goal orientation and the setting of appropriate…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Foreign Countries, Universities, Higher Education
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Xu, Guoxing – Frontiers of Education in China, 2008
The research findings have made it clear that Chinese college student aid policy has several characteristics. Generally speaking, student financial aid is increasing up to some extent. The government financial aids focus mostly on improving equality of educational opportunity in higher education. However, aids from the government are inadequate,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Financial Aid, Student Loan Programs, Foreign Countries
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Chen, Chengwen; Hu, Guiying – Frontiers of Education in China, 2008
The concept of job-hunting is an important factor affecting university students' employment. This empirical study shows that while hunting for a job, graduates witness negative correlation between their expectation of the nature of work and the demand for occupational types and the accessibility to a post and monthly income; positive correlation…
Descriptors: Expectation, Student Attitudes, Correlation, Employment Opportunities
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Shi, Kouzhu – Frontiers of Education in China, 2008
Private schools were very prosperous in Shanghai during the Republican period. Shanghai Municipal Educational Bureau adopted a pattern of indirect management, especially attaching importance to normalizing and guiding the mechanism for operating a school by taking the basic measures for the registration administration. Meanwhile, appropriate…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Educational Finance, Educational Administration, Public Education
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Yao, Jihai; Mao, Yaqing – Frontiers of Education in China, 2008
Left-behind children refer to those left behind by parents working away from home and taken care of by only one of the parents or relatives because one or both of the parents go out to work in the city. By using questionnaires, this study involves 8,627 rural pupils chosen from 10 provinces to examine academic psychological characteristics,…
Descriptors: Psychological Characteristics, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
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Wang, Hongli; Li, Jinghua; Luo, Jing; Liu, Hong – Frontiers of Education in China, 2008
The purpose of this study was to investigate the memory effects of the postgraduates' memorizing Everyday English from 30 to 100 using the Natural Numeral Imagery Memory (Method by memorizing the concrete objects associated with the shapes of Arabic numeral to produce marvelous imagination, MMOASAPMI). The results indicated as follows: Firstly,…
Descriptors: Memorization, Inhibition, Memory, Mnemonics
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Tang, Linchun; Fu, Lujian – Frontiers of Education in China, 2008
According to the sample survey on 6,050 students in Shanghai, there is a low correlation between schoolwork burden and academic achievements. Moreover, schoolwork burden seems to even have some negative effects on test performances. Therefore, it is suggested further studies be conducted regarding ways for students to make the best use of their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Correlation, Stress Variables
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Hu, Weiping; Chen, Ming – Frontiers of Education in China, 2008
"Teenagers' abstract thinking ability test" was designed in accordance with the structure and performance of teenagers' ability to think abstractly. 138 Chinese junior high school students who learned New curriculum and old curriculum separately were measured. A comparison between the two kinds of students shows that abstract thinking…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Junior High School Students, High School Students
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Deng, Meng – Frontiers of Education in China, 2008
This study investigated the attitudes of primary school teachers from the selected rural and urban areas in China toward inclusive education. The results indicated that, (1) teachers' attitudes are composed of three dimensions: positive and negative effects of inclusion, and benefits of segregated special education; (2) most surveyed teachers…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Urban Teaching, Inclusive Schools, Foreign Countries
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Zhang, Xiangkui; Sun, Lei; Gai, Xiaosong – Frontiers of Education in China, 2008
In order to investigate the teachers and parents' perceptions of school readiness, 218 parents and 370 teachers were surveyed. Based on the areas of "physical well-being and motor development", "social and emotional development", "approaches to learning", "language use", "cognition and general…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Kindergarten, Elementary School Teachers, Motor Development
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