Teacher Involvement in Policy Making in Chinese Schools

  • Xiaoruo Gai
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Abstract

This chapter focuses on teacher involvement in China. In particular, it addresses how teachers and their principals view the potential responsibility-taking of teachers in Chinese high schools. To lay groundwork for the presentation, several characteristics of education in China are identified and discussed. The data collection is described and the findings from the analysis of the data, along with several explanations are presented.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Xiaoruo Gai
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  1. 1.Research AssociateUS
  2. 2.Consortium for Cross-Cultural Research in EducationUniversity of MichiganUS

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