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Derek J. Anderson – Online Submission, 2023
International schools aim to provide students with a multicultural experience, equipping students with a global-minded education to succeed in future higher educational or professional careers abroad. For students to succeed in international schools, native and international staff members should have a well-rounded knowledge of professional…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Action Research, Transformational Leadership, Departments
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Cheung, Che Keung; Geng, Shuang; Chuah, Kong Bieng; Chau, Yiu Chung; Kwong, Kar Fai – Learning Organization, 2016
Purpose: This paper aims to present the result of the pilot run of a research project which aims at evaluating the applicability of project-based action learning (PAL) to shop floor organizational learning (OL) component in a manufacturing company in Dongguan, China. How the PAL framework was introduced and implemented is described. The factors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Vocational Education, Pilot Projects
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Hu, Guangwei; Li, Linna; Lei, Jun – Language Policy, 2014
This article reports a case study of an undergraduate English-medium program at a major university in mainland China. The study critically examines the language ideology, language management, and language practices revolving around the focal program. The data sources included national and institutional policy documents related to English-medium…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Undergraduate Study, Universities
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Hamilton, Doug – Journal of International Education and Leadership, 2014
The latest national educational policy in the People's Republic of China calls for comprehensive educational reforms aimed at building the foundation for a modern learning society throughout China over the next 10 years. This research examines school leaders' efforts to implement school improvement initiatives that directly respond to the policy's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Urban Areas
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Hu, Bi Ying; Fuentes, Sarah Quebec; Wang, Chun Yan; Ye, Feiwei – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2014
In 2001, the Chinese Ministry of Education issued Guidelines for Preschool Education (GPE) (trial version) to call on early childhood practitioners to use a child-centered and play-based approach to teaching and learning. The guidelines also include mathematics within the science domain and described its standards in a way that significantly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Guidelines, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers
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Ma, Angela Kit Fong; O'Toole, John Mitchell – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
The study described in this paper investigated how the major stakeholders of a teacher education institution responded to a particular suite of educational products that involved video-based educational learning objects. It aims to look into stakeholder attitudes to potential technological development in fostering student-centred learning in…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Countries, Problem Based Learning, Stakeholders
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Tao, Xin; Chunhua, Kang – Chinese Education and Society, 2012
Basic education is universal education, which aims to improve the basic quality of a nation's people. In the three decades since reform and opening up, earth-shaking changes have taken place in the quality of China's basic education. This article describes the path of development and changes in China's basic education over the past thirty years…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Educational Change