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Luping, Wu – Chinese Education and Society, 2011
Scholars who study volunteer activities are attaching ever greater importance to the motivations of volunteers who participate in volunteer activities. However, deficiencies are, on the whole, to be found in the empirical studies by scholars in China on the participating volunteers' motivations. To make up for the deficiencies in the research on…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Investigations, Motivation, Foreign Countries
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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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Trent, John; DeCoursey, Matthew – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2011
This article reports on a qualitative study that investigated the experiences of one group of English language teachers from the Chinese mainland who completed their teacher training in Hong Kong and have taken up full-time teaching positions in secondary schools within Hong Kong. Using the concept of teacher identity construction, and drawing…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Countries, Teaching Experience
Ngee, Lee Mah – Online Submission, 2011
This paper presents a study of 428 youths who participated in service-learning projects in developing countries in South-East Asia, China and India. Using mixed-method approach, this study examined the reasons for their participation in the YEP (youth expedition projects) and the impact of their service-learning experiences on their civic…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Citizen Participation, Service Learning, Foreign Countries
Wu, Dan – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) is a successful educational movement initiated in the US in the 1970s to promote better teaching and learning. It has developed to incorporate writing, speaking, digital educational technologies, and other communication modalities in the past several decades. WAC initiatives have now been successfully…
Descriptors: Expertise, Higher Education, Writing Across the Curriculum, Foreign Countries
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Liu, Yujin; Dunne, Mairead – Comparative Education, 2009
In the post-Mao era, the Chinese government carried out a series of education reforms to modernise education provision. This paper explores two related aspects of these reforms through comparative case study research in three different school locations within the same region in China. The first focus is upon system reform initiated through…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Educational Policy
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Baicai, Sun; Mingren, Zhao; Jaiyi, Wang – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
Rural compulsory education is a very weak link in the development of China's education system. For many years, an education fiscal input mechanism with the township as the main player was adopted for supporting China's rural compulsory education. In May 2001, China's rural compulsory education was placed under an administrative system of…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy