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Qinghuan Zhu; Lengxin Liu – Chinese Education & Society, 2023
The reform of school district system is an important measure in promoting the high-quality, balanced development of compulsory education, as well as promoting the modernization of regional educational governance systems and governance capabilities. China's school districts exhibit characteristics differing from Europe and the United States in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Districts, Cultural Differences, Governance
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Huang, Fang; Sánchez-Prieto, José Carlos; Teo, Timothy; García-Peñalvo, Francisco J.; Olmos-Migueláñez, Susana; Zhao, Chen – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2021
This study examined how cultural values and teacher beliefs influence Chinese and Spanish university teachers' acceptance of ICTs by combining Hofstede's cultural values theory with technology acceptance theories. Four hundred and twenty-five university teachers from China and 385 teachers from Spain participated in the study. The proposed…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, College Faculty, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Liu, Wei – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2021
There is an increased need for leadership development in higher education around the world. Reported in this paper is an explorative higher education leadership development program developed from an international comparative perspective. This ongoing program is offered to Chinese university administrators at a Canadian university since 2012. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Leadership Training, Program Design
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Yu, Shi; Zhang, Fengjiao; Nunes, Ludmila D. – Metacognition and Learning, 2023
Metamotivational knowledge is a burgeoning area of study. It refers to people's knowledge about motivation, and it has been shown to contribute to motivation and behavioral outcomes. The current study bridges metamotivational knowledge with self-determination theory (SDT), one of the most prominent theories of academic motivation. SDT proposes…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Self Determination, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation
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Yuan, Meng; Zeng, Jingjing; Swedlow, Brendon; Qi, Rui – Environmental Education Research, 2022
This article uses Cultural Theory (CT) to complement the Knowledge Deficit Model (KDM) in explaining the environmental concern of Chinese youth. We use a large-scale nationwide sample and adopt multiple multi-level models. We find that the effect of knowledge varies with measurements of knowledge and environmental concern. Youth whose cultural…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Environment, Conservation (Environment)
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Leping, Mou – Higher Education Forum, 2021
This research aims to examine the liberal arts models of three institutions in three Chinese societies. The theoretical framework for the study is the capabilities approach. I use a qualitative method of document analysis to examine educational goals, missions, and curricula in the three institutions. The research finds that, with a focus on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Liberal Arts, Higher Education, Asian Culture
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Probert, Simon – Journal of Research in International Education, 2022
In recent years there has been a significant shift in the international school market in China, from educating predominantly the children of expatriates to educating Chinese nationals. This article will examine the problems such schools face in terms of putting together an international curriculum, not least in terms of the complex web of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Schools, Barriers, Curriculum Development
Chen, Dongyang; Ha, Wei – ECNU Review of Education, 2020
Purpose: This study investigates the impact of Confucius Institutes on China's international education initiatives. First, it examines whether the establishment of Confucius Institutes has a gravitational effect on the scale of foreign students coming to China. Second, it discerns whether there are any association between the establishment of…
Descriptors: Confucianism, Institutes (Training Programs), Foreign Students, Scholarships
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Zhao, Yong – ECNU Review of Education, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to examine the consequences of mutual borrowing of educational policies and practices between the East and the West and implications for Chinese education. Design/Approach/Methods: This paper draws upon a wide variety of historical, cultural, and international assessment data. Findings: The analyses found…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
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Cai, Yonghong; Bi, Yan; Wang, Li; Cravens, Xiu Chen; Li, Yanli – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2018
The construct of teachers' pay satisfaction is important to the systemic appraisal of teachers' compensation. The study aims to probe the components of teachers' pay satisfaction and verify this construct in primary and secondary schools in China. In-depth interviews with 24 teachers were conducted to propose a construct model for teachers' pay…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Salaries, Secondary School Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
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Marinoff, Rebecca; Heilberger, Michael H. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2017
A model Center of Excellence in Low Vision and Vision Rehabilitation was created in a health care setting in China utilizing an inter-institutional relationship with a United States optometric institution. Accomplishments of, limitations to, and stimuli to the provision of low vision and vision rehabilitation services are shared.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Visual Impairments, Partial Vision, Rehabilitation
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Robak, Steffi – European Education, 2014
This contribution discusses selected basic theoretical principles and empirical results from my postdoctoral thesis (Robak, 2012a), which investigates the learning and educational processes of German-speaking expatriates in global enterprises in China. I start by showing that no adequately developed concepts for an integrated learning culture…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Learning Processes, German, Native Speakers
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Stanley, Nile; Nguyen, Kate; Wilson, Hope; Stanley, Laurel; Rank, Astrid; Wang, Yonghui – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Numerous qualitative studies, mostly with English speaking Westerners, have shown the important role of storytelling and values in promoting resilience. However, this quantitative study helps fill the gaps in the research, by investigating the mediator effects of storytelling on values and resilience of American, German, Chinese, and Vietnamese…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Vietnamese People, Literacy Education, Individual Differences
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Imbo, Ineke; LeFevre, Jo-Anne – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
Imbo and LeFevre (2009) observed that Asians (responding in their 2nd language) selected strategies less adaptively than did non-Asians (responding in their 1st language). In the present research, we tested whether adaptive strategy selection is (a) really more resource demanding for Asians than for non-Asians or (b) more resource demanding for…
Descriptors: Educational History, Cultural Differences, Short Term Memory, Foreign Countries
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Maruyama, Hiroki; Ujiie, Tatsuo; Takai, Jiro; Takahama, Yuko; Sakagami, Hiroko; Shibayama, Makoto; Fukumoto, Mayumi; Ninomiya, Katsumi; Hyang Ah, Park; Feng, Xiaoxia; Takatsuji, Chie; Hirose, Miwa; Kudo, Rei; Shima, Yoshihiro; Nakayama, Rumiko; Hamaie, Noriko; Zhang, Feng; Moriizumi, Satoshi – Early Education and Development, 2015
Research Findings: The purpose of this study was to examine differences in the development of conflict management strategies, focusing on 3- and 5-year-olds, through a comparison of 3 neighboring Asian cultures, those of China (n = 114), Japan (n = 98), and Korea (n = 90). The dual concern model of conflict management was adopted to probe which…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Conflict Resolution, Preschool Children, Asians
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