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Article: Education policy borrowing in China: has the West wind overpowered the East wind?
Title | Education policy borrowing in China: has the West wind overpowered the East wind? |
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Authors | |
Keywords | politics of gelling politics of selling education policy borrowing China |
Issue Date | 2015 |
Citation | Compare, 2015, v. 45, n. 5, p. 686-704 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Recent education reform in China reflects the global trend of education policy borrowing from Anglophone countries such as the USA. The reform in China essentially advocates shifting from knowledge reproduction and didacticism to knowledge construction by students through a learner-centredness approach. Aware of the trend of borrowing policy from ‘Western’ countries, some educators in China use the proverb ‘the West wind has overpowered the East wind’ to describe this phenomenon. This paper examines the cultural factors that influence education policy borrowing in China by drawing upon Johnson’s metaphors of the ‘politics of selling’ and the ‘politics of gelling’. This paper argues that there exist fundamental cultural differences between Western and Chinese perspectives on the nature and transmission of knowledge that make education policy transfer in China challenging. This paper further proposes that China borrow education policy judiciously by integrating foreign and indigenous sources of knowledge, teaching and learning. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/307157 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 1.6 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.960 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Tan, Charlene | - |
dc.contributor.author | Chua, Catherine S.K. | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-03T06:22:03Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2021-11-03T06:22:03Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Compare, 2015, v. 45, n. 5, p. 686-704 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0305-7925 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/307157 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Recent education reform in China reflects the global trend of education policy borrowing from Anglophone countries such as the USA. The reform in China essentially advocates shifting from knowledge reproduction and didacticism to knowledge construction by students through a learner-centredness approach. Aware of the trend of borrowing policy from ‘Western’ countries, some educators in China use the proverb ‘the West wind has overpowered the East wind’ to describe this phenomenon. This paper examines the cultural factors that influence education policy borrowing in China by drawing upon Johnson’s metaphors of the ‘politics of selling’ and the ‘politics of gelling’. This paper argues that there exist fundamental cultural differences between Western and Chinese perspectives on the nature and transmission of knowledge that make education policy transfer in China challenging. This paper further proposes that China borrow education policy judiciously by integrating foreign and indigenous sources of knowledge, teaching and learning. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Compare | - |
dc.subject | politics of gelling | - |
dc.subject | politics of selling | - |
dc.subject | education policy borrowing | - |
dc.subject | China | - |
dc.title | Education policy borrowing in China: has the West wind overpowered the East wind? | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/03057925.2013.871397 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84940461402 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 45 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 5 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 686 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 704 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1469-3623 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000360541300003 | - |