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Brogaard-Clausen, Sigrid; Guimaraes, Sofia; Rubiano, Clara; Tang, Fengling – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2023
Early childhood curricula are constructed from what is deemed important for young children's development and learning nationally, while influenced by international policy developments. Following concerns surrounding international neo-liberal agendas in early childhood policy formation, this article examines the position of young children's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Curriculum Development, Democratic Values
Zhao, Kang – ECNU Review of Education, 2020
Purpose: This article aims to conduct a critical analysis of key-competences-based education in China today by revealing three main challenges that Chinese educational practitioners, researchers, and policymakers might face. Design/Approach/Methods: Against the backdrop of international and Chinese policy and the practice of key-competences-based…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Educational Trends, Educational History, Curriculum Development
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Zhao, Fengping – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2022
In the context of China's social transformation and educational reform, addressing the problems of fragmented and ineffective learning in traditional teaching modes and enhancing students' academic levels and developing their comprehensive abilities through structured classroom learning have become critical issues in educational reform. The…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Teaching Methods, Cognitive Ability, Foreign Countries
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Zhao, Weili – Curriculum Inquiry, 2020
Epistemicide happens when globalizing West-centric discourses and practices dominate non-Western societies, suppressing and killing the latter's cultural systems of knowledge production. Though scholars worldwide are starting to recognize this fact, China is still forcefully transplanting Western policies and practices in the name of "going…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Epistemology, Foreign Countries
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Zajda, Joseph, Ed.; Jacob, W. James, Ed. – Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, 2022
This book examines some of the major higher education reforms and policy shifts globally, particularly in the light of recent shifts in quality and standards-driven education and policy research. It critiques the neo-liberal ideological imperatives of current higher education and policy reforms, and illustrates the way that changes in the…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Higher Education, Educational Change, Educational Policy
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Li, Hui; Rao, Nirmala; Tse, Shek Kam – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2011
This longitudinal study examined the relationship between pedagogical continuity in literacy education and early literacy development by comparing Chinese children in Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Stratified random sampling was used to select 24 preschool and Primary 1 classes in four communities catering to middle-class families in each city. The 24…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Literacy Education, Holistic Approach, Educational Change
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Dello-Iacovo, Belinda – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
This paper provides an overview of Chinese government attempts to promote a revised school curriculum reflecting a more holistic approach to education under the banner of "suzhi jiaoyu" ("quality education"), and positions the policies in the Chinese historical, educational, social and economic context. While the push has…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation, Educational History, Holistic Approach