Background: This article critically discusses the key tensions and challenges arising from the
educational policy borrowing in China, through its current education reform. Focussing on …

For over a decade, Mainland China has been embarking on an ambitious nation-wide
education reform ('New Curriculum Reform') for its basic education. The reform reflects …

This chapter critically discusses the development and application of a model of education in
China by focussing on recent curriculum reform in the country. Since the 1980s, Mainland …

Recent education reform in China reflects the global trend of education policy borrowing
from Anglophone countries such as the USA. The reform in China essentially advocates …

This article explores the exam-oriented, ritualistic, and exemplary Chinese education system
through a double-layered historical and ethnographic analysis. Firstly, I examine three …

ABSTRACT Chinese education scholars Cesan Wang and Qiquan Zhong led a debate over
knowledge centredness versus student centredness in China's ongoing pre-collegiate …

In China, the eighth round of national curriculum reform (NCR) is the most serious,
systematic, and ambitious attempt to transform the basic education curriculum system since …

This article outlines the nine curriculum reforms at different stages since the founding of the
People's Republic of China. Compared with the previous ones, the ninth curriculum reform …

When college entrance examinations act as gatekeepers to modern-sector jobs, the entire
education system then becomes oriented toward these examinations. This occurs at the …

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 …