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 …

School culture and teacher job satisfaction in early childhood education in China: the mediating role of teaching autonomy

J Xia, M Wang, S Zhang - Asia Pacific Education Review, 2023 - Springer
Job satisfaction among teachers is important for their motivation to effect changes. However,
in China, job satisfaction in early childhood education is a pressing issue, which leads to …

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 …

Early childhood teachers' professional learning about ICT implementation in kindergarten curriculum: A qualitative exploratory study in China

T Yang, X Hong - Frontiers in psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Many teachers have begun to adopt information and communication technologies (ICT) in
early childhood education (ECE) settings to support children's learning. However, research …

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 …

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 …

Bridging a cultural divide between play and learning: Parental ethnotheories of young children's play and their instantiation in contemporary China

X Lin, H Li, W Yang - Early Education and Development, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Research Findings: The current study explored the ethnotheories of 6 Chinese
families regarding their young children's play in Shanghai, the most Westernized metropolis …

Cultural ideology matters in early childhood curriculum innovations: A comparative case study of Chinese kindergartens between Hong Kong and Shenzhen

W Yang, H Li - Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This study forms part of a wider comparative research project investigating the mechanisms
and outcomes of school-based curriculum (SBC) development in kindergartens between the …

On the road to participatory pedagogy: A mixed-methods study of pedagogical interaction in Chinese kindergartens

R Huang, W Yang, H Li - Teaching and Teacher Education, 2019 - Elsevier
This study investigated the pedagogical interactions between teachers and young children
in six sampled Chinese kindergarten classrooms. Altogether 4320 turns of dialogue were …

A video-based approach to investigating intentional teaching of mathematics in Chinese kindergartens

W Yang, H Luo, Y Zeng - Teaching and teacher education, 2022 - Elsevier
This video-based study investigates the extent to which Chinese teachers intentionally teach
mathematics knowledge to kindergarten children. Evidence revealed that intentional …