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Teachers' Understandings and Actions Towards China's New Curriculum Reforms in the Context of Chinese Examination-Oriented Education.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Teachers' Understandings and Actions Towards China's New Curriculum Reforms in the Context of Chinese Examination-Oriented Education./
Author:	Bai, Jinyan.
Description:	1 online resource (112 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-04A(E).
Subject:	Education policy. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355329667

Teachers' Understandings and Actions Towards China's New Curriculum Reforms in the Context of Chinese Examination-Oriented Education.
Bai, Jinyan.

Teachers' Understandings and Actions Towards China's New Curriculum Reforms in the Context of Chinese Examination-Oriented Education. - 1 online resource (112 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Pennsylvania State University, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

China's long tradition of exam-based education has tended to be a steadfast barrier to educational reform efforts. Over the past decade, however, new official school reform efforts have emerged under the descriptive banner of "quality education" or, in Mandarin, suzhi jiaoyu. In spite of serious efforts to change curriculum and pedagogy to support suzhi jiaoyu, studies indicate the tremendous power of social and organizational structures to restrict classroom change. These include not only the power of high stakes entrance exams (such as gao kao), but also the willingness and capacities of teachers. The conflict between suzhi jiaoyu reform and traditional structure fits well within the framework offered by Bolman and Deal, which includes structural, human resource, and symbolic lenses for understanding. Coupling this framework with a variety of qualitative research methods, this case study examines the beliefs and attitudes of a sample of 29 secondary school teachers in the Grace school in Sichuan as a means for understanding the challenges and meaning of suzhi jiaoyu school reform implementation.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355329667Subjects--Topical Terms:

1107727
Education policy.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

Teachers' Understandings and Actions Towards China's New Curriculum Reforms in the Context of Chinese Examination-Oriented Education.
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