Table of Contents
Table of Contents
About the Editor
About the Authors
Preface
Chapter 1: One-Year Pre-School Classroom Environment Quality With Children’s School Readiness in China
(Yan Liu, Jin Shi and Yue-Juan Pan, Beijing Normal University, China)
Chapter 2: Special Education in China: Historical and Legislative Foundations, Curriculum and Services, and Future Directions
(Dalun Zhang, Mian Wang, Yaoying Xu and Song Ju, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA, and others)
Chapter 3: Improving the Quality of Special Education in China: Recent Development and Challenges
(Jianghua Lei and Liang Chen, Central China Normal University, China, and others)
Chapter 4: Rights of Children with Disabilities in Inclusive Education in China
(Fengming Cui, Harvard University, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Massachusetts, USA)
Chapter 5: Social Challenges and Cultural Influences on China’s Music Education: Practices and Issues in Teaching Popular Music in Schools
(Wai-Chung Ho, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China)
Chapter 6: School Physical Education in China and its Challenge and Future
(Bo Shen, Jian Wang and Jin Bo, Eastern Michigan University, Michigan, USA, and others)
Chapter 7: China’s Higher Education: Reforms and Developments
(Jianhua Hu and Ke Zhang, Nanjing Normal University, Jiangsu Province, China, and others)
Chapter 8: Historical Track of Higher Education Equity: A Case Study of the Opportunity for Higher Education Access From Different Social Strata for Half a Century in Yunnan University
(Jianxin Zhang, Yunnan University, Kunming, China)
Chapter 9: A Critical Reflection on Non-State Higher Education Institutions in China: Exploring the Reasons for their Downturn
(Xiaofan Li, The Catholic University of America, Washington DC, USA)
Chapter 10: Chinese Academic Capitalism, with Case Study of Universities in Yunnan Province
(Zhi-hui Wang, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, China)
Chapter 11: Understanding Higher Vocational Education in China: A Policy Perspective
(Jie Xiong, Government of Alberta, Canada)
Chapter 12: Promoting Rural Compulsory Education in China: GONGOS, CONGOS, Grassroots Organizations, and University Groups
(Huiquan Zhou, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China)
Chapter 13: Schooling of Rural-to-Urban Migrant Children in China
(Shaobing Su, Cheuk Chi Tam, Lihua Chen and Danhua Lin, Wayne State University, Michigan, USA, and others)
Chapter 14: Educational Technology in China: Past and Present
(Ke Zhang, Linmei Liang and Xinmin Sang, Wayne State University, Michigan, USA, and others)
Chapter 15: Distance Learning in China: A Means of Universalizing and Popularizing Education
(Shiling McQuaide, Athabasca University, Canada)
Chapter 16: Media Literacy Education in China: From Theory to Practice
(Wen Xu, University of Hong Kong & Communication University of China, China)
Chapter 17: L2 EFL TOT Workshop Series in China: Sustainability of Professional Development and Teaching Practices
(Mary Barbara Trube, Yeqin Kang and Haiyan Qiang, Ohio University-Chillicothe, Ohio, USA, and others)
Chapter 18: Language Education: Chinese (Mandarin) Language Teaching in the US and Hong Kong
(Shalin Qin, Wayne State University, Michigan, USA)
Chapter 19: Quality Education: The Driving Idea Behind China’s Educational Reform
(Yiyun Chen, University of Connecticut, Conneticut, USA)
Chapter 20: Grandparenting in Urban China: A Case of Childrearing and Education in Shanghai
(Jia Miao and Ian Newman, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China and others)
Chapter 21: Sex Education in China: Emergence from Behind
(Xin Wang, Shandong University, JInan, China)
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