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Liao, Wei; Liu, Yan; Zhao, Ping; Li, Qiong – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2019
The Teacher Rotation Policy (TRP) is a recent teacher policy developed in the context of China. TRP seeks to close China's teacher quality disparities through rotating 'high-quality' urban schoolteachers to teach in hard-to-staff rural schools for a period of time. This qualitative case study examined how five policy actors carried out TRP in one…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Quality, Teacher Competencies
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Ye, Juyan; Zhu, Xudong; Lo, Leslie N. K. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2019
This paper adopts an inductive analytical approach to reviewing the major state policies to reform teacher education in China. Based on the perceived impact on teachers and teacher education, 21 policy documents have been selected for this review. Five themes emerge in the analysis, which include: Expansion of teacher education by institutional…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
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Lo, Leslie N.K. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2019
This article offers a critical review of the impact of policy-induced changes on school teachers in the Chinese Mainland where educational reform has been an ongoing project for four decades. It addresses three aspects of the current state of teaching and the teaching profession: the contextual factors that have influenced their development; the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Professionalism