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Liang, Weihong – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2017
Since the 2000s, China has explicitly dealt with human rights education (HRE) in education at all levels. This article investigates China's policies, curricula, and practices of HRE in Chinese secondary schools. Data were drawn mainly from policy documents, textbooks, and interviews with school staff. Findings reveal a difference in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civil Rights, Secondary Schools, Secondary Education
Dobbs, Richard; Madgavkar, Anu – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
As a result of changing employer needs, shifts in the labour supply, and demographic forces, there could be increasingly significant mismatches between worker skills and job requirements by 2030, which could raise structural unemployment levels and slow economic growth. These gaps would include shortages of high-skill workers in advanced economies…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Foreign Countries, Job Skills, Labor Market
Wang, Lijia; Lai, Manhong; Lo, Leslie Nai-Kwai – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
In 2009, a reform in teachers' pay, linking remuneration to performance, was implemented in China. The intention was to improve the quality of education by making teachers more diligent and creative and removing the inequality in pay between teachers in different schools. A review of this reform reveals that it has resolved the problem of…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Merit Pay, Educational Change, Comparable Worth
Romi, Shlomo; Lewis, Ramon; Roache, Joel – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2013
This paper discusses the degree to which recently reported relationships between the classroom management techniques and coping styles of Australian teachers apply in two other national settings: China and Israel. Little is known about which teacher characteristics relate to their approach to classroom management, although researchers in Australia…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Coping, Educational Strategies, Educational Practices
Li, Jun – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2012
China's recent quest to develop world-class universities is a significant phenomenon within the worldwide transformation of tertiary education. Taking a cultural approach and drawing on empirical findings, this article investigates the emerging Chinese model of the university, considering its key features and contributions to global communities.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Quality, Educational Change
Yu, Lizhong; Su, Xueyun; Liu, Chunling – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2011
Since the 1980s, children with disabilities in China have been integrated into general education settings; the practice is termed "sui ban jiu du", literally "learning in a regular classroom" (LRC). The term LRC means "receiving special education in general education classrooms", and it is regarded as a practical form…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Inclusion, General Education, Disabilities
Yan, Chunmei; He, Chuanjun – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2011
Despite the frequent criticisms directed toward them, in-service teacher training (INSET) programmes remain one of the most commonly used approaches for enhancing teachers' professional development. This article reports on a study that examined the effects of a part-time masters of education INSET programme based in Central China. The main source…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Part Time Faculty
Altbach, Philip G. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2009
China and India together account for almost 25% of the world's postsecondary student population. Most of the enrolment growth in the coming several decades will be in developing countries, and China and India will contribute a significant proportion of that expansion, since China currently educates only about 20% and India 10% of the age cohort.…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
Blumberg, Rae Lesser – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2008
Gender bias in textbooks (GBIT) is a low-profile education issue, given the 72,000,000 children who still have no access to schooling, but this article argues that GBIT is: (1) an important, (2) near-universal, (3) remarkably uniform, (4) quite persistent but (5) virtually invisible obstacle on the road to gender equality in education--an obstacle…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Gender Bias
Zhu, Muju – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2007
Although it seems obsolete to analyse and criticise a curriculum from the point-of-view of "subject-centredness", this is the situation we face during the Chinese basic education curriculum reform. This article gives a brief introduction to the ideas behind the development and practice of the Chinese curriculum reform and the progress of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Educational Indicators
Hsueh, Yeh; Tobin, Joseph J.; Karasawa, Mayumi – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2004
The year 2004 is the centenary of the first official kindergarten in China. During this 100 years of development, early childhood education in China has experienced two big developmental spurts, first at the beginning of the twentieth century and then again at the turn of the twenty-first century. The argument presented by this paper is that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Young Children, War