China's Higher Education Reform and Internationalisation

by Ryan; Janette

• ISBN13: 9780415582254
• ISBN10: 0415582253
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Despite radical and fundamental reform of the Chinese higher education system, very little is known about this outside China. The past decade has seen radical reform of all levels of China's education system as it attempts to meet changing economic and social needs and aspirations: this has included transformation of university curricula, pedagogy and evaluation measures, rapidly increasing joint research and degree programmes between Chinese universities and universities abroad, and very large numbers of Chinese students studying at universities outside China.This book describes the historical, cultural, intellectual and contemporary background and contexts of the reform and internationalisation of higher education in China. It discusses these changes, outlines the challenges posed by the changes for university administrators, faculty, researchers, students and those working with Chinese academics and students in China and abroad, and assesses the impact, and evaluates the success, of the changes. Most importantly, it considers how this mobility of people and ideas across educational systems and cultures can contribute to new ways of working and understanding between Western and Chinese academic cultures.The book is a companion to Education Reform in China , which focuses on reform at the early childhood, primary and secondary levels.

Author Biography

Janette Ryan is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia. Her publications include International Education and the Chinese Learner.

Table of Contents

List of tables	p. xii
List of figures	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Contributors	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Internationalisarion and reform of China's higher education: Structures and policies	p. 7
Enter the Dragon: The internationalisation of China's higher education system	p. 9
Chinese ways of thinking in the transformation of China's higher education system	p. 34
Reform and development of teaching assessment in China's higher education institutions	p. 48
Reform and internationalisation: Programmes and pedagogies	p. 65
Preparing for the twenty-first century: Liberal education and undergraduate educational reform at Sun Yat-sen University	p. 69
Cross-cultural team teaching in China: A retrospective view	p. 87
Transition in Chinese-British higher education articulation programmes: Closing the gap between East and West?	p. 104
International education and exchange: Experiences and expectations	p. 121
Understanding Chinese international students at a Canadian university: Perspectives, expectations and experiences	p. 123
Managing change and transition: Chinese students' experiences in British higher education	p. 134
Chinese international students in Australia: Creating new knowledge and identities	p. 151
Intercultural education: Values and motivations	p. 169
Overcoming the cultural challenges in supervising Chinese research students in Australia	p. 173
The hidden curriculum: A critical analysis of tertiary English teaching in China	p. 193
Costs and benefits of international education: Chinese Masters students at the University of Oxford	p. 211
Chinese students studying abroad: The role of parents' investment in their children's education	p. 237
Index	p. 253
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