edited by John Chi-Kin Lee, Zeyuan Yu, Xianhan Huang and Edmond Hau-Fai Law
vi, 346 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references
Educational development in Western China: towards quality and equity / John Chi-Kin Lee, Zeyuan Yu, Xianhan Huang and Edmond Hau-Fai Law -- Review of the pressing research issues on West of China's ethnic minority education / Jian Wang -- Development of what, for what, and for whom? Deweyan perspectives on education for minority nationalities in Western China / Stephen A. Bahry -- Gender inequality and ethnicity: educational stratification in Western China, 1949-2004 / Yanbi Hong -- The welfare and education of left-behind children in Western China: problems, solutions and challenges / Bernadette Robinson -- The pathways to higher education for ethnic minorities in China are not easy / Jef C. Verhoeven and Jianxin Zhang -- A glimpse of quality and equity issues in education in West China: a narrative inquiry into a novice Mongolian teacher's life in Northwest China / Ju Huang and Shijing Xu -- Reluctant to serve their hometowns and country: Xinjiang class graduates and teaching in Xinjiang's 'bilingual' schools / Timothy A. Grose -- Developing trilingual education in Western China / Eric Johnson, Ma Fu and Bob Adamson -- Innovation and change in English teaching in the western provinces of China: the impact of overseas training / Daguo Li, Xiaorong Zhang and Viv Edwards -- Deciphering difference: educational policy and practice for Western China's Muslim women / Mary Ann Maslak -- Intentions and influences of teachers' school based curriculum development in primary and secondary schools in Northwest China / Mingren Zhao, Chenzhi Li and Edmond Hau-Fai Law -- Research on mathematics teaching experiment of "situated creation and problem-based instruction" in middle and primary schools / Xiaogang Xia, Chuanhan Lv, Bingyi Wang and Yunming Song -- Teacher commitment in Northwest China: a comparative study of Han and Uighur teachers / Xianhan Huang, John Chi-Kin Lee, Zhonghua Zhang and Jian Wang -- Challenges and insights of early childhood education in West China: from the perspective of quality and equity / Xiaoping Yang, Min Li and Shanan Wang -- Development of special and inclusive education in Western China / Meng Deng and Kim Fong Poon-McBrayer -- Changing university governance: a case study of a top university in Western China / Manhong Lai, Linlin Li and Ping Du -- The contribution of international aid to the development of basic education in Western China / Bernadette Robinson