Emerging Perspectives on Education in China:
State Schooling and Ethnic Identity: The Politics of a Tibetan Neidi Secondary School in China

"This is an important examination of one of the most fascinating social experiments in modern Sino-Tibetan history-the creation of a school system for Tibetan youth outside of Tibet in the Han areas of China."—Melvyn C. Goldstein, John Reynolds Harkness Professor, Case Western Reserve University

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Emerging Perspectives on Education in China:
Muslim Uyghur Students in a Chinese Boarding School: Social Recapitalization as a Response to Ethnic Integration

This book will interest not only scholars of China’s minority peoples,
but those engaged in comparative study of educational policy in
multi-ethnic environments.” —*James A. Millward*, Georgetown University

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Emerging Perspectives on Education in China:
Identity and Schooling among the Naxi: Becoming Chinese with Naxi Identity

Identity and Schooling Among the Naxii examines the identity construction of Naxi students in Lijiang No.1 Senior Secondary School in China, focusing on the changing roles of school, community, and family in the identity construction of the students

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Education in China: Reform and Diversity:
Language Education in China: Policy and Experience From 1949

Langage Education in China: Policy and Experience from 1949 is unprecedented as a comprehensive study of the multilingual circumstances in China. It tracks policy changes in the learning of Chinese, foreign languages and minority ethnic languages in China since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. On the basis of survey and interview data, the experiences of different age cohorts of learners are presented as ‘windows’ to the realities of language education policy implementation over the last half century. The effects of political changes, language backgrounds and various motivations for learning, at both the national and individual levels, are vividly presented in this composite story of China and learners in China.

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Education in China: Reform and Diversity:
e-learning Initiatives in China: Pedagogy, Policy and Culture

e-Learning Initiatives in China provides research and application insights into e-learning in China, in the light of two drives by the Chinese Ministry of Education: to implement curriculum reform and to promote quality and innovation in e-learning provision.

Educationalists throughout the world have their eyes on China, both as a market to understand and to enter, and as a major source of international students. In addition, educationalists are increasingly aware of the need to incorporate digital technology into their course provision and delivery. This book provides valuable insights into both of these elements. It includes ‘state-of-the-art’ reviews of e-learning in China, case study examples of e-learning design and development issues, and explores the collaboration challenges that British and Chinese teams experienced as they participated in a Sino-UK e-learning initiative, the eChina-UK Programme.

The book is written in a clear and accessible style. Section 1, Background, introduces the book and provides an overview of e-learning in higher education in China. Section 2, Designing and Delivering Online Courses in China, starts with a critical review of online courseware designs that are currently widespread in China, and then presents a series of case study examples which deal with important design and delivery issues. Section 3, Managing the Interplay between Pedagogy and Technology, explores ways in which new learning technologies can be exploited for pedagogic purposes. Section 4, Managing Collaboration Processes, discusses the issues that the project teams needed to manage effectively as they collaborated both internationally and professionally. The final section, Sin...

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Education in China: Reform and Diversity:
University Autonomy, the State, and Social Change in China

This book explores the role of universities in responding to ongoing changes in China, and in shaping the relations between the university and the state during periods of social change. Tsinghua University is selected as a case study to inform this important issue. By tracing the changes and continuities Tsinghua has experienced since 1911, this book gives an in-depth analysis of how the university strives to maintain autonomy while taking a leading role in implementing China’s policy of higher education.

By drawing on a vast literature of higher education theories, the book offers original insights into the university-state relationship and provides a new understanding on the complexities China faces in the era when the country is becoming a key global actor.nd continuities Tsinghua has experienced since 1911, this book givns...

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