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Human Rights Issues in the English Language Curriculum in China
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Peng Zhang; Enze Guo – Human Rights Education Review, 2024
As China increasingly engages in global human rights mechanisms, it has demonstrated a commitment to reforming its national curriculum. Through examining textbooks published during Xi Jinping's tenure, this study investigates how China embeds human rights issues in the English language curriculum. The findings indicate that the human rights issues…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Propaganda, Foreign Countries, National Curriculum
Politics, Textbooks, and the Boundary of 'Official Knowledge': The Case of Liberal Studies in Hong Kong
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Wu, Wenxi – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2021
Liberal Studies (LS), a high-stakes senior secondary school subject in Hong Kong, has evoked widespread debate in recent years concerning the curriculum content about Mainland China. Highlighting the deregulated textbook policy on this subject as adopted by the Hong Kong Education Bureau (EDB), this paper compares how specific socio-political…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Liberal Arts, Textbooks
Academic Stress in Chinese Schools and a Proposed Preventive Intervention Program
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Zhao, Xu; Selman, Robert L.; Haste, Helen – Cogent Education, 2015
While American educators fret about the mediocre educational performance of American students in international contests (e.g. the Program for International Student Assessment) and wonder why the Chinese education system produces such high-achieving students, educators, journalists, and public officials in China want to know what causes and how to…
Descriptors: Intervention, Stress Management, Stress Variables, Student Problems
Struggling to Balance Various Stakeholders' Perceptions: The Work Life of Ideo-Political Education Teachers in China
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Lai, Manhong; Lo, Leslie N. K. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2011
As a compulsory course at universities throughout the Chinese Mainland, ideo-political education aims to safeguard university students' political loyalty to the Communist Party. By employing a qualitative research method, this study investigated a renowned comprehensive university in southern China. The case study found that students expressed…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Qualitative Research, Teacher Effectiveness, Research Methodology
China: Tradition and Transformation. Curriculum Projects. Fulbright-Hays Summer Seminars Abroad Program, 2002 (China).
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National Committee on United States-China Relations, New York, NY. – 2002
This collection of 15 curriculum projects is the result of a summer seminar in China for teachers and scholars. Projects in the collection are: (1) "Perspectives on Modern Political/Social Issues in China" (Sandy Conlon); (2) "Ancient History X Projects/China" (Michael Corey); (3) "Education and Development: China, a Case…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Asian History, Asian Studies, Chinese Culture
Vocational Education and Training for Life Long Learning in the Information Era. IVETA [International Vocational Education and Training Association] Conference Proceedings (Hong Kong, China, August 6-9, 2000).
Vocational Training Council (Hong Kong). – 2000
This document contains 123 papers from an international conference on vocational education and training (VET) for lifelong learning in the information era. The papers focus on the following themes: (1) societal and ethical issues; (2) human resource development and personnel training; (3) international issues; (4) information technology in VET;…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Academic Standards, Adult Learning, Alternative Assessment