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Education and Mobilities

Ideas, People and Technologies. Proceedings of the 6th BNU/UCL IOE International Conference in Education

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  • © 2020

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Editors:
  1. Xudong Zhu

    1. Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

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  2. Jiayong Li

    1. Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

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  3. Mang Li

    1. Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

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  4. Qiang Liu

    1. Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

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  5. Hugh Starkey

    1. UCL Institute of Education, London, UK

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  • Provides readers with the latest data on and a wide range of examples concerning education mobilities
  • Highlights state-of-the-art innovations and practical applications in the field
  • Provides highly specific and vivid details based on first-hand fieldwork data

Part of the book series: Perspectives on Rethinking and Reforming Education (PRRE)

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Table of contents (21 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. The Effect of Educational Mode on Professional Development Program for Chinese Language Teacher in South-Asian Countries (DPCLT-SAC): A Cross-Cultural Adaptation Perspective

    • Lan Yu, Bei Liu
    Pages 1-38

  3. A Curriculum Designed for the Children with Pediatric Cancer in a Chinese Children’s Hospital

    • Ningling Zhang
    Pages 39-55

  4. The Role of Assistive Technologies in the Learning of Visually Impaired Young People at a Rural Tanzanian Secondary School

    • Alison Morrison
    Pages 57-80

  5. Research on Teachers’ Teaching Behavior in the Classroom of Modern Apprenticeship in Higher Vocational Colleges

    • Chenglin Zhu
    Pages 81-95

  6. Characteristics of Contemporary Education Policy Making in China: Changes and Challenges

    • Chengwen Hong, Yao Liu, Jing Wang
    Pages 97-105

  7. The Ecological Construction of the Basic Education Curriculum Under the Multicultural Perspective

    • Guangdui Li
    Pages 107-118

  8. Factors Affecting International Student Mobility in Transnational Higher Education: Perspectives from China and Germany

    • Hongmei Sziegat
    Pages 119-149

  9. Promoting British Values in Multicultural Society: Identity and Diversity

    • Lin Qiu
    Pages 151-166

  10. The Changing Role of English Teachers in China as a Result of Curriculum Change

    • Man Lei
    Pages 167-186

  11. Does Poverty Matter or Inequality? An International Comparative Analysis on the Intergenerational Education Persistence

    • Qiang Liu, Ruichang Ding
    Pages 187-205

  12. Supporting a SEN School and the Teachers in Creating an App for Language Development

    • Wai Sum Wilkson Lam, Maria Kambouri, Maria Brempou
    Pages 207-227

  13. A Research on Teacher-Education-Related Standards Mobilities from Foreign Countries to Chinese Context

    • Wei Jin
    Pages 229-242

  14. From Role-playing to Self-discovery—Study of the Identity of Teachers from Mainland China in the Education Reforms

    • Weiwei Han
    Pages 243-249

  15. A Political Economy of English in Japan: The Consumption of English as Investment and Leisure

    • William Simpson
    Pages 251-261

  16. Towards a Common Framework for Global Citizenship Education: A Critical Review of UNESCO’s Conceptual Framework of Global Citizenship Education

    • Xiaodan Sun
    Pages 263-277

  17. Comparative Research on Tutors Management in Open and Distance Education between UK and China

    • Xiaoqian Liu
    Pages 279-292

  18. Transnational Professional Development for Chinese University Leaders: Case Studies from China and Finland

    • Xin Xing
    Pages 293-306

  19. How to Improve Undergraduate Students’ Critical Thinking in the Classroom: From the Perspective of Critical Theory

    • Ying Zhang
    Pages 307-315

  20. Global Citizenship and General Education in Chinese Research University—Based on the Case Study of Sociology Course

    • Yunxia Han
    Pages 317-325
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About this book

This book gathers selected original papers presented at the Sixth Beijing Normal University - University College London, Institute of Education International Conference in Education, a biennial event organised in partnership between this two universities. Readers will find a wealth of papers and reports on research involving schools and the initial and professional development of teachers, revealing links between research, policy and practice, while also analyzing key themes in education, including public goals and policies, pedagogy, curricula, organisation, resources and technologies, and institutional effectiveness. An essential guide for anyone who wishes to understand the main issues involved in mobilities of ideas, people and technology in the field of education, the book offers an extensive introduction, and can also be used as a resource for empirical and conceptual research into related issues.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

    Xudong Zhu, Jiayong Li, Mang Li, Qiang Liu

  • UCL Institute of Education, London, UK

    Hugh Starkey

About the editors

Prof. Xudong Zhu is an expert on comparative and teacher education as well as foreign education history. He is the dean of the Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, the general secretary of Teacher Education Committee of Experts at the Ministry of Education, the director of the Center for Teacher Education Research, one of the Key Research Institutes of Humanities and Social Sciences at Universities, Ministry of Education. and a senior visiting scholar in the Fulbright Program at the University of Maryland. He has published more than eighty papers, ten books, and edited four series.


Prof. Jiayong Li is the vice dean for the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences Research and the immediate past vice dean of the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University. He has been involved in teaching, research and administration at the University for more than twenty years. Prof. Li’s research interest is international and comparative education, with special focus on teacher education, curriculum studies, and private education. He is also editor of the Journal of Educational Studies published in Beijing. Prof. Li has published more than ten books, and over twenty articles and consultation papers.


Prof. Mang Li is the vice dean for Faculty of Education and vice director of the Centre for Faculty Development at Beijing Normal University, the director of Institute of Teaching Behaviour and a member of the Teaching Committee at the Ministry of Education of China.  He presides over the Higher Education Quality Course and the National Online Sharing Course. He has won the Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences Research Outstanding Achievement Award.
 
Late Prof. Qiang Liu was an associate professor of International and Comparative Education at Beijing Normal University, and a key member of the APEC Higher Education Research Center, approved by the Ministry of Education of China, and of the APEC Secretariat.  His research interests focused on internationalization of higher education, cross-border education, and educational finance. He has published two monographs and more than 20 peer-reviewed articles and undertaken a number of key research projects in the areas of comparative education.
 
Prof. Hugh Starkey is Professor of Citizenship and Human Rights Education at UCL Institute of Education, London. His research focuses on education for democratic citizenship, human rights and social justice in a globalized world.  He is founding co-director of the International Centre for Education for Democratic Citizenship and editor of the London Review of Education. He has acted as a consultant for several governments and the Council of Europe, UNESCO, the European Commission and the British Council.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Education and Mobilities

  • Book Subtitle: Ideas, People and Technologies. Proceedings of the 6th BNU/UCL IOE International Conference in Education

  • Editors: Xudong Zhu, Jiayong Li, Mang Li, Qiang Liu, Hugh Starkey

  • Series Title: Perspectives on Rethinking and Reforming Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9031-9

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-9030-2Published: 28 April 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-9261-0Published: 26 August 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-9031-9Published: 27 April 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2366-1658

  • Series E-ISSN: 2366-1666

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 337

  • Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: International and Comparative Education, Educational Technology, Sociology of Education

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