Evolution of the early childhood curriculum in China: The impact of social and cultural factors on revolution and innovation

H Li, JJ Chen - Early Child Development and Care, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
During the last century, early childhood curriculum (ECC) in China has undergone a series
of monumental transformations, shaped by the interaction between local cultural and global …

Curriculum hybridization and cultural glocalization: A scoping review of international research on early childhood curriculum in China and Singapore

W Yang, H Li - ECNU Review of Education, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Purpose This article presents a scoping review of the internationally published research on
the early childhood curriculum (ECC) reforms, policies, measures, and effectiveness in …

Can COVID-19 pandemic influence experience response in mobile learning?

YP Yuan, GWH Tan, KB Ooi, WL Lim - Telematics and Informatics, 2021 - Elsevier
The mass spreading of COVID-19 has changed the paradigm of the education industry. In
China and many other nations, universities have introduced compulsory remote education …

Thinking through talk: Using dialogue to develop students' critical thinking

R Cui, P Teo - Teaching and Teacher Education, 2023 - Elsevier
This study adopts a dialogic instructional approach to explore the relationship between
teacher talk and students' critical thinking. Through a fine-grained analysis of a teacher's …

The role of culture in early childhood curriculum development: A case study of curriculum innovations in Hong Kong kindergartens

W Yang, H Li - Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This study employed an inductive qualitative approach to understanding the effects of local
culture on early childhood curriculum development in two Hong Kong kindergartens. A …

Arts-related pedagogies in preschool education: An Asian perspective

A Bautista, A Moreno-Núñez, R Bull, F Amsah… - Early Childhood …, 2018 - Elsevier
Compelling research and contemporary early childhood curriculum frameworks have
increasingly emphasized the importance of arts education in fostering children's holistic …

Enhancing the quality of kindergarten education in Singapore: Policies and strategies in the 21st century

CT Tan - International Journal of Child Care and Education …, 2017 - Springer
Almost all children in Singapore complete 1 year of preschool before entering primary
school. However, preschool education (PSE) is not compulsory and is provided primarily by …

Changing culture, changing curriculum: A case study of early childhood curriculum innovations in two Chinese kindergartens

W Yang, H Li - The Curriculum Journal, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
School-based curriculum development (SBCD) has been advocated to enhance the quality
of early childhood education within the context of modernization and globalization. However …

Instructional strategies and linguistic features of kindergarten teachers' shared book reading: The case of Singapore

H Sun, W Toh, R Steinkrauss - Applied Psycholinguistics, 2020 - cambridge.org
Teachers' language practice during shared book reading may significantly affect the rate
and outcome of early language proficiency. The current study has focused on 37 …

Neoliberalism and sociocultural specificities: A discourse analysis of early childhood curriculum policies in Australia, China, New Zealand, and Singapore

W Yang, P Xu, H Liu, H Li - Early Child Development and Care, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Many governments have launched the top-down early childhood curriculum (ECC) reforms
to enhance the accountability of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services. The …