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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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"At a moment when the "flat world," the utopian promise of technology, and the demands for numerical accountability structure the conversation on education and teaching, the appearance of a book on contemporary curriculum reform in China is particularly important. In Autobiography and Teacher Development in China, Zhang Hua and William F. Pinar offer a series of essays that present and analyze the complex aspects of China's curriculum reform efforts, many of which resemble the neoliberal reform efforts now hegemonic in the US and Europe and spreading across the globe. But the authors disrupt any easy equation of Chinese curricular efforts with those reforms, and in doing so, reveal how a vision of the good teacher shifts and changes depending on national, cultural, local, and community contexts and individuals' situations. The issues raised and addressed in the essays - the effect of technology on the teacher-student relationship, the specificity of what it means to teach and be a teacher and the importance of autobiographical work in teacher education and teaching - appear in the context of China's teacher development efforts. They speak, however, to teachers everywhere who face the pressures of neoliberal education reforms and who look for language and visions that can serve as an alternative to those reforms." - Peter M. Taubman, Department of Secondary Education, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Autobiography and Teacher Development in China
Book Subtitle: Subjectivity and Culture in Curriculum Reform
Editors: Zhang Hua, William F. Pinar
Series Title: Curriculum Studies Worldwide
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137382405
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Education Collection, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-38239-9Published: 01 July 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-38240-5Published: 27 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2731-6386
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6394
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 266
Topics: Teaching and Teacher Education, Asian Culture, Sociology, general, International and Comparative Education, Educational Philosophy, Philosophy of Education