Curriculum reform in China : changes and challenges / Hong-Biao Yin and John Chi-Kin Lee, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yin, Hong-Biao.

Lee, John Chi-kin.

Series:

Education in a competitive and globalizing world series.

Education in a competitive and globalizing world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Curriculum planning--China.

Curriculum planning.

Curriculum change--China.

Curriculum change.

Education--Curricula--China.

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Curriculum reform has played a central role in the educational changes in contemporary China. The government of the People's Republic of China, being at the center of the centralized educational administration system, assumes the responsibility for designing and organizing the systemic reform initiatives. This is especially the case for what has been happening since the end of 1990s. At the turn of the new millennium, the Chinese government initiated the new round of national curriculum reform (NCR) for basic education which is also the eighth round of nation-wide curriculum reform since the founding of the Peoples' Republic of China. This book will give insightful information on the state of Educational programs in China's immediate future and written by many educators in China's learning system

Contents:

pt. 1. Introduction

pt. 2. The context of the reform

pt. 3. Change implementation in subject areas

pt. 4. Teacher professional development in curriculum reform.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61470-997-1

OCLC:

847617137