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Shang Xiang; Tik-Sze Carrey Siu – Arts Education Policy Review, 2024
Jazz arrived in mainland China as early as the 1920s. It has since been a popular music genre among the middle and upper classes. Similar to that in the West, jazz education in China has been increasingly formalized, with a growing number of universities and academies offering jazz degree programs or courses. Despite a few studies on jazz and its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Music, Higher Education
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Carlgren, Dave – Journal of Competency-Based Education, 2021
As the 21st century has just passed its 20th year, there have been some changes to educational policy and practice in domains in many countries around the world, including more than 4.1 million children in 137 countries participating in skill development programmes aimed at fundamental learning. Few of these have reached to secondary schools. The…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Curriculum Design, High Schools, Educational Practices
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Qu, Zejing; Huang, Wen; Zhou, Zhengjun – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of applying sustainability to the engineering curriculum at a university in China. Design/methodology/approach: A new curriculum, "ethics, involvement and sustainability," was designed and presented to engineering students from an undergraduate major in quality…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Engineering Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods
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Jinxiu, Jing; Zhengping, Zeng – English Language Teaching, 2016
Reading is an important skill in learning English. However, reading class is not emphasized in some primary schools in China, and there are various problems with the reading activities, which inadequately just focus on teaching of words, sentences separately from texts. This paper aims to bring out a whole system of principles in designing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Educational Principles
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Hu, Mingyan; Eisenchlas, Susana A.; Trevaskes, Sue – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2019
In response to the increasing literature on transnational higher education in host countries, this paper aims to identify prominent factors affecting the quality of transnational higher education in China, as perceived and reported by Chinese host universities. A qualitative data analysis was conducted on 122 self-appraisal reports on…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Higher Education, Universities, International Education
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Pilz, Matthias; Krisanthan, Balasundaram; Michalik, Bjoern; Zenner, Lea; Li, Jun – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2016
The role of pre-vocational education in general compulsory education has become increasingly relevant over recent years, with the international debate focussing particularly on its importance in school-to-work transitions. This study considers curriculum design and the implementation of pre-vocational education in four countries with radically…
Descriptors: Prevocational Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Role of Education