Pub Date : 2021-04-11DOI: 10.1007/s11516-021-0004-5
Dennis Fung, Weijun(Tim) Liang
In science, gravity refers to the universal force of attraction acting on and between all matter. No one on earth can escape the force of gravity. In a similar vein, the stringent requirements of publications, research grants, and research output in the academic world can be metaphorically described as “academic gravity,” the force of which pushes university academics to struggle and strive in pursuit of excellence just to survive in the changing landscape of higher education governed by neo-liberalism and managerialism. This article describes the journey of a junior academic staff member in an Asian university as he coped with various difficulties in establishing a collaborative culture in his department (i.e., the Faculty of Education). Working with a senior colleague (Sunshine-mother hereafter) in the same department, Author 1 began to recognize the importance of collegial collaboration in teacher education generally and in his academic life specifically. However, although he tried his utmost to develop a culture of collaboration amongst his colleagues, he struggled to cope with the tension and stress exerted by academic gravity (i.e., publication production and the pursuit of tenure). Drawing on data collected from a teaching development project and adopting a reflective autobiographic approach, this article delineates the collaborative relationship between Author 1 and Sunshine-mother, exemplifying the important roles that coaching and a free rein (i.e., weightlessness) play in the development of junior teacher-educators under the strong pressure of academic gravity.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1007/s11516-021-0002-7
Aihui Peng, Li Cao
{"title":"How Chinese Teach Mathematics: Canadian Teachers’ Perspectives","authors":"Aihui Peng, Li Cao","doi":"10.1007/s11516-021-0002-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-021-0002-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45075,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Education in China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11516-021-0002-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44066720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1007/s11516-021-0005-4
Peter Tze Ming Ng
{"title":"A Tribute to Two Humanistic Educators in China: Lu Jie and Tao Xingzhi","authors":"Peter Tze Ming Ng","doi":"10.1007/s11516-021-0005-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-021-0005-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45075,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Education in China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11516-021-0005-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53124165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.1007/s11516-020-0033-5
Yuning Liu
{"title":"John Dewey’s democratic education and its influence on pedagogy in China 1917–1937. Lei Wang","authors":"Yuning Liu","doi":"10.1007/s11516-020-0033-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-020-0033-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45075,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Education in China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11516-020-0033-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41346689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.1007/s11516-020-0032-6
Chi-Kong Lai, Kent Wan
{"title":"民国社会教育研究 [Research on social education during the Republican period]. 周慧梅 [Zhou, Huimei]","authors":"Chi-Kong Lai, Kent Wan","doi":"10.1007/s11516-020-0032-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-020-0032-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45075,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Education in China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11516-020-0032-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48339644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.1007/s11516-020-0030-8
Jiehui Zhao, Katerina Bodovski
{"title":"The Effect of Family Background and Parental Expectations on Eighth Graders’ Academic Achievement in Rural and Urban China","authors":"Jiehui Zhao, Katerina Bodovski","doi":"10.1007/s11516-020-0030-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-020-0030-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45075,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Education in China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11516-020-0030-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48665524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.1007/s11516-020-0029-1
Xin Zhang, W. Admiraal, Nadira Saab
{"title":"University-School Partnership in China: Teachers’ Personal Factors, Working Conditions, and Principal Leadership That Explain Their Development in Teaching","authors":"Xin Zhang, W. Admiraal, Nadira Saab","doi":"10.1007/s11516-020-0029-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-020-0029-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45075,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Education in China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11516-020-0029-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49637750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.1007/s11516-020-0027-3
Baoyan Cheng, Donghui Zhang
{"title":"Cultivating Citizens with Confucian Cosmopolitanism: Defining the Purpose of Liberal Arts Education in the Asian Context","authors":"Baoyan Cheng, Donghui Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s11516-020-0027-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-020-0027-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45075,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Education in China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11516-020-0027-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49134556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.1007/s11516-020-0034-4
Weidong Tao
{"title":"The philosophy of Chinese moral education: A history. Zhuran You, Anthony Gordon Rud, & Yingzi Hu","authors":"Weidong Tao","doi":"10.1007/s11516-020-0034-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-020-0034-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45075,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Education in China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11516-020-0034-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45720405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.1007/s11516-020-0031-7
Kuo Zhao
{"title":"Ambitious and anxious: How Chinese undergraduates succeed and struggle in American higher education. Yingyi Ma","authors":"Kuo Zhao","doi":"10.1007/s11516-020-0031-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-020-0031-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45075,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Education in China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11516-020-0031-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44671429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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