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Pepin, Birgit; Xu, Binyan; Trouche, Luc; Wang, Chongyang – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2017
In order to develop a deeper understanding of mathematics teaching expertise, in this study we use the Documentational Approach to Didactics to explore the resource systems of three Chinese mathematics "expert" teachers. Exploiting the Western and Eastern literature we examine the notion of "mathematics teaching expertise", as…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers, Expertise, Interviews
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Pilz, Matthias – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2016
The transfer of vocational education and training (VET) systems is currently the subject of lively international debate, but there has so far been very little documentation of the process or analysis of how such transfers are achieved in practical terms. This paper therefore considers the potential for transferring Germany's "dual"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Corporate Education, Training Methods, Vocational Education
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Yuan, Rui; Lee, Icy – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2016
In teacher identity research, limited attention has been paid to how pre-service teachers constructed their identities by negotiating with different emotions in their practice. To fill this gap, the present study, drawing upon the approach of narrative inquiry, explores how a student-teacher--Ming--negotiated and navigated conflicting emotions in…
Descriptors: Practicums, Narration, Student Teaching, Preservice Teachers
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Oakley, Grace; Pegrum, Mark; Xiong, Xi Bei; Lim, Cher Ping; Yan, Hanbing – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2018
In a 2013-2014 Australia-China Council project, middle school students in Australia and China shared digital stories about their everyday lives and local cultures, and traditional tales with a modern twist. This article reports on research that aimed to explore the successes and challenges associated with this digital story exchange between…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Story Telling, Computer Mediated Communication, International Educational Exchange
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Xiao, Junhong – Open Learning, 2014
Research into motivation in education mainly centres on students' learning motivation. This article reports on an interview study of teacher motivation with the aim of investigating the effects of student-related factors and tutors' personal factors on the motivation of language tutors in the distance learning context. Findings from the study…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Distance Education, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
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Fuchs, Carolin; Snyder, Bill; Tung, Bruce; Jung Han, Yu – ReCALL, 2017
This case study explores how a Chinese-American novice teacher acted as mediator in a telecollaboration with student teacher (ST) peers in the USA who designed tasks for his English as a foreign language (EFL) learners in China. The novice teacher was instrumental in mediating the student teachers' task design process by providing feedback…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Telecommunications, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Chen, Zan; Goh, Christine – Teacher Development, 2014
Teacher knowledge, as an important cognitive basis of teaching, has attracted tremendous attention in educational research in the last few decades. This study examines whether teachers' self-perceived knowledge about oral English teaching differs with regard to their professional profiles in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context in…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Zhou, Lihong; Nunes, Miguel Baptista – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2012
This paper reports on a research project that aims at identifying knowledge sharing (KS) barriers between traditional and western medicine practitioners co-existing and complementing each other in Chinese healthcare organisations. The study focuses on the tacit aspects of patient knowledge, rather than the traditional technical information shared…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cooperation, Medicine, Foreign Countries
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Koo, Anita – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2012
In China, there is a growing group of "migrant children", who reside in the city but do not have full rights to access education. Many have been granted a chance to study in public schools after the policy change, but they continue to have lower educational outcomes than the local students. To understand the inequality, this paper…
Descriptors: Migrant Education, Outcomes of Education, Migrant Children, Foreign Countries
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Wan, Zhi Hong; Wong, Siu Ling; Yung, Benny Hin Wai – Science Education, 2011
Teaching nature of science (NOS) is beginning to take root in science education in China. This exploratory study interviewed 24 science teacher educators from economically developed parts of China about their conceptions of teaching NOS to prospective science teachers. Five key dimensions emerged from the data. This paper focuses on the dimension…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Interests, Foreign Countries, Science Teachers
Pang, Lan-Sze – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of the study was to gain an in-depth understanding of the emotional expression in the narration of autobiographical stories of Chinese international students in their respective languages (i.e., Mandarin and English). It addressed the methodological limitations of previous research on bilinguals' emotional expression and…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Interviews, Memory, Foreign Countries