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2. Threats to scholarly research integrity arising from paper mills: a rapid scoping review.
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Pérez-Neri, Iván, Pineda, Carlos, and Sandoval, Hugo
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PAPER mills , *SCHOLARLY periodicals , *FRAUD in science , *MOLECULAR biology , *ACQUISITION of manuscripts - Abstract
"Paper mills" are unethical outsourcing agencies proficient in fabricating fraudulent manuscripts submitted to scholarly journals. In earlier years, the activity of such companies involved plagiarism, but their processes have gained complexity, involving the fabrication of images and fake results. The objective of this study is to examine the main features of retracted paper mills' articles registered in the Retraction Watch database, from inception to the present, analyzing the number of articles per year, their number of citations, and their authorship network. Eligibility criteria for inclusion: retracted articles in any language due to paper mill activity. Retraction letters, notes, and notices, for exclusion. We collected the associated citations and the journals' impact factors of the retracted papers from Web of Science (Clarivate) and performed a data network analysis using VOSviewer software. This scoping review complies with PRISMA 2020 statement and main extensions. After a thorough analysis of the data, we identified 325 retracted articles due to suspected operations published in 31 journals (with a mean impact factor of 3.1). These retractions have produced 3708 citations. Nearly all retracted papers have come from China. Journal's impact factor lower than 7, life sciences journals, cancer, and molecular biology topics were common among retracted studies. The rapid increase of retractions is highly challenging. Paper mills damage scientific research integrity, exacerbating fraud, plagiarism, fake images, and simulated results. Rheumatologists should be fully aware of this growing phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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3. Origins, Motives, and Challenges in Western-Chinese Research Collaborations amid Recent Geopolitical Tensions: Findings from Swedish-Chinese Research Collaborations
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Shih, Tommy and Forsberg, Erik
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Until recently, modern science had been dominated by a handful of Western countries. However, since the turn of the millennium, the global science landscape has undergone dramatic changes. The number of nations where a significant proportion of research done is of high international standard has now increased considerably. China particularly stands out and is today one of the leading science nations in the world. Overall, Chinese research collaborations with countries in the Western world exemplify the general trend towards increasing complexity in the global research landscape. It has gradually become obvious that differences between institutional settings need to be managed more systematically to promote cross-border research cooperation for shared benefits, from individual to institutional levels. An informed discussion of managing complex conditions necessitates an understanding of the relationship-level dynamics of research collaborations. In order to identify what aspects of international research collaborations are the most pertinent to systematically manage at individual and institutional levels, this paper investigates projects in a bilateral Swedish-Chinese funding program. The paper finds that the majority of collaborations funded had yielded positive impact in terms of publications, strengthened research capacity in research groups, and resource accumulation. The challenges found in the collaborations are related to needs such as improving transparency, ethical concerns, and imbalances in reciprocity.
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- 2023
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4. COVID-19 and Transition to Online Learning: Evidence from a Sino-Foreign University in China
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Sultana, Rakiba and Palaroan, Rosalie
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This paper investigates how the COVID-19 pandemic influenced student perceptions of online learning. This study examines how did the COVID-19 pandemic and the first-time transition to online mode of instruction influence Sino-Foreign University student perceptions of online learning in terms of (1) academic dishonesty, (2) privacy and confidentiality, (3) impact of social media on online learning (4) hybrid method and (5) institutional training. In order to judge students' perception of the transition to online learning, this study employed a cross-sectional survey-based design to gauge student perceptions of online learning before, during, and after the transition to remote instruction. This study finds that Sino-foreign University students are more conscious of academic integrity. Social media has a vital role in providing teaching resources, communicating with professors and classmates, and expediting collaboration during the pandemic. A blended learning model might be the best option for a post-COVID-19 environment for higher institutions.
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- 2023
5. The Impact of Undergraduates Servant Leadership on Their Employability
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Xiaoyao Yue, Linjiao Zou, Yan Ye, and Ting Cai
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Since there are many advantages of servant leadership, such as altruistic calling, emotional healing, wisdom, persuasive mapping, and organizational stewardship, employers and human resources are particularly concerned about these soft skills when recruiting graduates. This study explores the impact of undergraduates' servant leadership on their self-perception of employability. We utilized previously validated scale questionnaires (the Servant Leadership Scale and the Undergraduates Perceived Employability Scale) to predict the perceived employability of undergraduates. We used multiple linear regression analysis to examine the five subscales of undergraduate servant leadership. Our extensive research has uncovered substantial evidence supporting all five hypotheses presented in the paper. Five variables, derived from the five dimensions of servant leadership, were used to measure undergraduates' perceived employability as the dependent variable. Our findings confirm that the altruistic calling, emotional healing, wisdom, persuasive mapping, and organizational stewardship dimensions of servant leadership have positive correlations with undergraduates' perceived employability. Our findings suggest that undergraduates may be more employable if they exhibit the characteristics of servant leadership. Undergraduates should therefore be encouraged to enhance their soft skills in relation to servant leadership, and universities should consider offering courses on the topic. Employers and HR professionals may want to provide training to new employees on servant leadership to align better with the company culture. This study is the first to predict how undergraduate students' servant leadership qualities affect their perceived employability. The findings indicate that undergraduates who exhibit servant leadership traits are more likely to have a positive perception of their employability.
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- 2024
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6. Patriotism in Moral Education: Toward a Rational Approach in China
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Lin, Jason Cong and Jackson, Liz
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Patriotism is controversial in moral education across contexts. In China, patriotism is highly politicised by the government and heavily promoted in education. In the last few decades, the moralisation of patriotism, which refers here to the framing of patriotism as a virtue, has become the focus of teaching patriotism in China. This paper demonstrates how patriotism is moralised and promoted in Chinese moral education textbooks. The paper begins by providing a theoretical introduction to patriotism in moral education and defending a rational approach to teaching patriotism given its controversial nature. Then it elaborates on the Chinese context of teaching patriotism and analyses patriotism as part of moral education in Chinese textbooks. Our findings indicate various ways in which patriotism is promoted in Chinese education as a non-controversial virtue and moral duty. Finally, the paper discusses the limitations of this way of teaching patriotism and argues for the adoption of the rational approach as an alternative.
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- 2023
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7. The Status Quo and Reform Thinking of the Talent Training Mode of Biology Teachers in Middle School
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Peng, Bo, Zhang, Chuanling, Peng, Feng, Sun, Xuezhong, Tian, Xiayu, Ma, Xiaorui, Pang, Ruihua, Sun, Yanfang, Zhou, Wei, and Wang, Quanxiu
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It has always been one of the hot spots of the whole society to improve teachers' quality and ability. With the progress of the era and the rapid development of biology, it puts forward higher requirements for the cultivation of biology teachers of middle school. How to cultivate a large number of high-quality biology teachers of middle school with good ethics and outstanding abilities is a focus problem worth exploring. There are some problems in the traditional training mode of biology normal students, such as backward teaching idea, unreasonable teaching arrangement and uneven teaching level. In view of these problems, normal universities should take a series of reform measures to promote the professional development of middle school biology teachers. Therefore, this paper summarizes the reform necessity, current situation and existing problems of the talent training mode. It also puts forward a series of reform measures on the talent training mode in the aspects of learning, innovation and reflection. Thus, this paper will provide important reference for the reform of talent training mode of middle school biology teachers in the future.
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- 2020
8. A Critical Review of Chinese Theoretical Research on Moral Education since 2000
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Cheng, Hongyan
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Purpose: The purpose of this article is to summarize and reflect Chinese theoretical research on moral education in the context of globalization and value pluralism since 2000 and to propose possible directions for the future research. Design/Approach/Methods: The research methods in this article are primarily literature review. Those papers which met the following criteria were selected and included in this review: (1) Papers published from 2000 to 2014 were included if they were cited by at least one other published article and (2) papers published from 2015 to 2017 were included if they were presented in a core research journal. Based on that, speculative thinking and critical thinking are also embodied in this research. Findings: Based on the features of "a man of virtue," the article identifies the four dimensions that have influenced Chinese thinking about moral education: (1) Kantian and Enlightenment philosophy, (2) emotion and life experience, (3) social rights, and (4) the culture-value dimension. The four dimensions of moral education theory are related and complement, rather than contradict, each other. The author argues that the research scopes underlying current moral education theories are fairly narrow. A more comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach is needed to improve theoretical research and to enhance the effectiveness of moral education practice in schools and universities. Originality/Value: The article provides a latest overview and critical insights to consolidate the foundation of moral education in an era of societal transformation by comparing moral education research between China and the West and proposing realizing a deep integration between theory and practice.
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- 2019
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9. Animal Ethics in Biology Teaching and Research in Selected Asian Countries
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Wallis, Robert
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Governance and regulation of the use of live animals in research and teaching is examined in Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, China, Japan and India. A comparison of the systems in different countries will enable the determination of best practice and fit-forpurpose regulation. The most comprehensive government regulation of animal welfare in institutions covers a broad range of animals and institutions are required to have an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, whose membership is specified in guidelines or regulations. The work of the Committees is rigorously overseen by government and facilities that use live animals are audited externally. All countries examined have legislation governing the use of live animals in research, although only Australia and Malaysia have a fully equivalent mandated oversight of teaching. Teaching that uses live animals is partly covered in the Philippines, Japan, Singapore and Thailand This paper thus aims to review the regulation of animal use in different Asian jurisdictions in order to determine best practices that are appropriate to those settings. The most comprehensive oversight is provided in Australia and Malaysia that essentially use the same regulatory framework.
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- 2023
10. 'Thinking through the World': A 'Tianxia' Heuristic for Higher Education
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Lili Yang, Simon Marginson, and Xin Xu
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Ancient Chinese civilisation developed two ideas about the ordering of large human spaces. The first was tianxia or 'all under heaven', the inclusive and cosmopolitan world as a whole, with no exterior, and governance on the basis of shared values and benefits, which first shaped statecraft in the Western Zhou dynasty (1047-1771 BCE). Second, the centralised nation-state which emerged in the Qin dynasty (221-206 BCE). Both strands have been influential through Chinese history. In the last twenty years discussion of tianxia has revived, especially through Zhao Tingyang, stimulated by globalisation and the need for practical relations beyond the nation state. This paper proposes one version of tianxia as a heuristic for understanding, rethinking and remaking ethical relations in worldwide higher education. It reviews different understandings of tianxia in China, identifies a world-centred (rather than China-centred) tianxia, and discusses the potentials of tianxia in higher education. Tianxia is appropriate to world higher education because of its spatiality and its ethical commitment to universal benefit in diverse settings on the basis of mutual respect. The article suggests four clusters of relational values that could constitute a tianxia order in higher education, and compares tianxia to existing practices of globalisation.
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- 2024
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11. Axiological Aspects of the Socio-Cultural Interaction of Russian and Chinese Students in the Educational Space of the Russian Universities
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Belyaeva, Ekaterina
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The development of cultural ties and cooperation between Russia and China in the field of education correlates with the current strategy of internationalization of Russian universities. Many Russian universities today tend to develop partnerships with Chinese universities. In particular, the number of Chinese students studying in Russian universities constantly increases; academic exchange programs are successfully implemented, the number of scientific contacts between representatives of universities of the two countries grows. The implementation of such cooperation is accompanied by problems of social and cultural interaction in the field of education of Russian and Chinese students. General purpose of the study was identifying the axiological component in the interaction of Russian and Chinese students in the space of the Russian university. Chinese students who study in Yekaterinburg universities (390 people), Russian students who study / live with Chinese (500 people), 10 Chinese experts, 10 Russian experts in the field of education in Russia and China were interviewed. The results suggest that the Russian students find the values of hedonistic nature -- love and pleasure -- to be more important than the Chinese ones, while the Chinese students consider study and personal security to be most important (and this is determined by the goals of coming to Russia and the conditions of staying in the territory of a foreign country). Nevertheless, it cannot be said that the values of students from the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China differ radically and may interfere with the productive socio-cultural interaction between them. Besides, the great importance of such values as world peace and love of country for Chinese students can be the basis for attracting them to participate in the activities of patriotic and cultural student associations that already exist in the Ural universities. The practical significance of the results obtained is that the identified problems of socio-cultural interaction between Chinese and Russian students make it possible to develop technologies for optimizing the socio-cultural interaction of foreign students in Russian universities, which is especially important in the initial stages of their education in Russia. Among the recommendations for optimizing the process of entering Chinese students into Russian universities (in addition to Russian language classes) are joint Russian-Chinese leisure and holiday events, joint social student associations (volunteering, tourism, music, etc.), excursion programs aimed at acquaintance with the culture of the host country, the joint interaction of Russian and Chinese students in social networks and messenger apps. [For "NORDSCI International Conference Proceedings: Education and Language Edition (Athens, Greece, August 19, 2019). Book 1. Volume 2," see ED603411.]
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- 2019
12. English Teaching as an Evangelical Tool for Two-by-Two Missionaries
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Wargo, Jennifer
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Purpose: The purpose of this narrative is to share insights on the little-known two-by-two evangelical sect, specifically its use of English teaching in South Korea and China as a missionary tool of conversion. Design/methodology/approach: This narrative is written in memoir-style, with sections that analyze the author's experiences. The analysis looks at the two-by-two sect through the lens of Gee's Theory of Discourse. Findings: Based on the author's experiences as an insider for 35 years in the two-by-two evangelical sect, four of those in China and S. Korea, she discusses the use of English teaching as a missionary tool of conversion. The paper questions the ethicality of this practice. Practical implications: The author suggests that global English teachers should carefully examine their own religiosity to make sure they are not ethically compromising opportunities for their students in an effort to create converts. Originality/value: This paper sheds light on the global nature of the two-by-two sect, a religion that has very little written about it in the scholarly realm.
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- 2022
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13. An Analysis of Exchanges in Chinese Social Media. Are Social Networking Sites Contributing to Cheating?
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Madden, Arndew D., Luo, Ting Yu, and Nunes, Miguel Baptista
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This study investigates the possibility that social networking sites in China are used to exchange information about the use of unfair means in university assignments. It presents a thematic analysis of 303 messages posted between September 2016 and September 2017, on a group set up on Douban for Sheffield University students. It also draws on information provided by members of WeChat group who had formerly been students at Sheffield University. The study was prompted by an apparent increase in the practice of faking references. None of the posts on Douban referred to this practice. Students on the WeChat group suggested it was commonplace. Both Douban and WeChat were used to provide information about essay-writing services. [For the complete proceedings, see ED590269.]
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- 2018
14. Isolated or Aligned? The Cooperative English Class for Fair Education in Inclusive Teaching Framework
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Chen, Haoran
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Teaching fairness is very important for inclusive teaching, which requires teachers' creation of a fair classroom atmosphere and helps students construct their own meaning while learning. In the inclusive teaching framework, the present study descriptively explores the cooperative English class for fair education, especially providing impartial learning opportunities the students with anxiety disorders. The findings of the paper are as follows: teachers should realize the significance and importance of fair education and provide every child with the opportunity to return to problems solving and participate in classroom activities, the classroom atmosphere is the essential factor influencing the direction and validity of teaching processes and the implementation of inclusive education, and the teaching pedagogy should also be considered in the inclusive classroom. In general, it is well suited to inclusive teaching and evaluation although critical pedagogy has some drawbacks to use. The present study is expected to provide a reference for the improvement of fair education in classroom-based English teaching.
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- 2022
15. Influence of Differential Leadership on Teachers' Professional Ethics: An Empirical Study from Chinese Universities
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Zhu, Yong-yue and Guo, Min-yu
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In Chinese society, the teachers' professional ethics have been considered important since ancient times and have been widely discussed. This paper aims to explore the mechanism of the influence of differential leadership with local cultural adaptability on college teachers' professional ethics. A total of 403 valid responses were collected from a questionnaire survey of university teachers in many regions of China, and the data were statistically analysed by SPSS17.0 and AMOS22.0. The results showed that differential leadership positively influences college teachers' professional ethics, and college teachers' professional identity plays a mediating role between differential leadership and teachers' professional ethics. The effect of differential leadership on college teachers' professional identity and professional ethics is negatively moderated by the tendency towards collectivism, and it seems to be contrary to the national culture of Chinese, which is high in collectivism, but consistent with the strong will of college teachers and the current workplace characteristics embodied in the sample investigated. It is expected that the research results of this paper can provide theoretical guidance for the construction of teachers' professional ethics in relevant governments and colleges.
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- 2021
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16. Chinese EFL Academics' Perceptions of Research Quality: A Phenomenological Study
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Xie, Jianmei and Postlethwaite, Keith
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This paper explores how Chinese academics, working in the field of English as Foreign Language Education in universities in China, conceptualise research quality. The paper uses a phenomenological approach and four qualitative methods (survey, interview, focus groups and document analysis) to investigate what a sample of these scholars perceive as high-quality research. We found that the participants viewed quality through various lenses and identified several different criteria. We categorised their elaboration of the criteria under three headings: methodology, contextualisation and impact. The participants nominated many general criteria that were similar to western standards of research quality, especially in relation to methodology; however, some contextual criteria were specific to the Chinese context. The paper indicates that there is much in the university research community that could be altered to enable people who are directly involved in research to disseminate their criteria for research quality, and potentially to affect and develop the quality of educational research in the Chinese context, and/or elsewhere.
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- 2019
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17. Ethical Intervention versus Capital Imaginaries: A Class Analysis of the Overseas Schooling Choice of the Chinese 'New Rich'
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Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) and Wang, Yujia
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The overseas schooling choice as a spatial strategy of capital accumulation has recently attracted scholarly attention (Findlay et al 2012; Ong 1999; Waters 2005, 2006; Brooks and Waters 2011). This paper follows an exploration of the links between geographical mobilities incurred by educational choices, capital accumulation, and class identities by looking at the overseas educational choice of the Chinese "new rich". It situates this examination in the schooling choices of Chinese families in both China and Australia, particularly drawing attention to the Chinese students' educational experiences in China, to better understand their overseas educational imperatives and imaginations at the moment of their overseas study decision-making. Theoretically, it engages with debates of flexible accumulation of cultural capital in geographically transnational mobility (Ong 1999; Waters 2006), cosmopolitan capital (Weenink 2007; 2008), and class-making (Bourdieu 1986; Ball 2003). In these debates, schools are approached as a regime of capital where students can be possibly inculcated in certain cultural traits and accumulate targeted forms of cultural capital that constitutes their class-to-be identities. The paper seeks to contribute to this academic endeavour by focusing on the overseas educational choice-making of Chinese international students and their families. It is also a break that sees schools as an ethical regime. Drawing on the notion of ethical problematization in the situated global assemblages (Ong and Collier 2005), it is an attempt to explore the ethical rationalities associated with overseas school choices. It is revealed in this empirical research that ethical rationalities centring round "how one should live" and neoliberal rationalities of capital imaginaries are mediated paralleled or single-handedly in the construction of the Chinese new rich's overseas study imperatives. By bringing attention to their ethical rationalities and emotional landscapes, this paper argues that ethical rationalities cannot be neglected as motivations and a valence of reasoning in the school choice making by an over-emphasis on a neoliberal logic embedded in a classed strategy.
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- 2012
18. Institutions' Espoused Values Perceived by Chinese Educational Leaders
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Pang, Nicholas Sun-Keung and Wang, Ting
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This paper presents some key findings of a quantitative study which assessed a group of Chinese educational leaders' value orientations. A survey instrument "The Institutional Values Inventory" was used to investigate their perspectives on the values espoused by their institutions in terms of traditional Confucian ethics and values of hierarchical relationship, collectivism, humanism, and self-cultivation. It discusses implications for leadership preparation and practice in an increasingly globalized context. [For complete volume, see ED567040.]
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- 2012
19. Leading from the Heart: The Passion To Make a Difference. Leadership Stories Told by Kellogg National Fellowship Program Fellows.
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Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, MI. and Sublett, Roger H.
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This document presents the personal narratives of 19 participants in the National Fellowship/Leadership program. In their narratives, the Kellogg fellows recount their experiences developing leadership knowledge, skills, and competencies while addressing human, societal, and community issues. The following papers are included: "Preface" (William C. Richardson); "Foreword" (Barbara Kellerman); "Introduction" (Roger H. Sublett); "Ride for Righteousness and Justice: Leadership Lessons from a Transcontinental Bike Ride for Hunger Relief" (David G. Altman); "Leading through Conflict: The Interconnectedness of AIDS and Land Conflict in Zimbabwe" (Paul Terry); "Toward Ethical Leadership: My Journey from Tanzania to Belize" (Edward J. O'Neil, Jr.); "Among Angels and Soldiers" (Jenna Berg); "Bringing Attention to America's Forgotten Caregivers: Grandparents Raising Grandchildren" (Meredith Minkler); "Building a Community Vision" (Army Lester); "Practice, Practice" (Pat Mora); "Spirituality in Leadership: Must It Remain the Unspoken?" (Melinda K. Lackey); "Loud, Proud, and Passionate: Women with Disabilities Emerge in Beijing" (Susan Sygall); "Child of the Mississippi Delta" (Royal P. Walker, Jr.); "The Longest Journey" (Colleen Stiles); "Recognizing Others' Truths" (Paul J. Gam); "Something to Contribute, Something to Learn" (Suzanne Burgoyne); "Falling Slate and Sacrifice" (Bob Henry Baber); "Three Faces of Leadership" (Patrick F. Bassett); "Leadership Weather" (Steven J. Moss); "Leadership Lessons in Rock Climbing" (Donna L. Burgraff); "Leadership Lessons from the Jungle" (Fay M. Yoshihara); and "Adelberto's Dilemma" (Ken Fox). (MN)
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- 2001
20. Enacting Critical Cosmopolitanism in Suburban Preservice Teacher Education through Crafting a Pedagogical Third-Space of Ethics
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Sun, Lina
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This paper explores critical cosmopolitan literacies as a framework to engage teacher preparation program candidates in re-conceptualizing about their work as active thinkers, ethical decision makers, and agentive global actors. The purpose of the study is to elucidate how preservice teachers, in a secondary literacy teacher education program, respond to ethics-oriented education in addressing complex and controversial sociopolitical issues, such as the dialectics of freedom, human rights, and growing racism in the neoliberal globalized context. The third space theory of ethics is used to interpret participant student teachers' intellectual epistemology based on their engagement with literary and nonliterary works, as well as multicultural media products. Data consist of observations, discussions, focus-group interviews, reflective journals, and course evaluations. This study contributes to our understanding of how critical cosmopolitan literacies is situated in the intercultural dialogue pertaining to ethical and equitable decision-making as a promising professional enterprise in the preparation of literacy educators as global advocates for equity and social justice.
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- 2023
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21. Open Science in China: Openness, Economy, Freedom & Innovation
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Zhang, Xiyuan, Reindl, Stefan, Tian, Hongjun, Gou, Minghan, Song, Ruijie, Zhao, Taoran, Jackson, Liz, and Jandric, Petar
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Taking credit for digitalization and platformization, China has initiated its open science infrastructure implementation and made an effort to focus on open access (OA) journals and data sharing over the past two decades. With the continuous development need, issues and concerns have caught in attention, including data accessibility, research transparency, general population awareness and communication of science, public trust in science, and scientific research and innovation efficiency. This paper has unfolded the maze of open science stance in China and elaborated on its current economy, openness and freedom extents, and future innovation potential towards a global open science community, within depth and scope of both the Chinese and Western scholars' interpretations.
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- 2023
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22. Operation Mechanism and Evaluation of 'County High School Education Model' in the Context of Chinese College Entrance Examination System
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Huang, Jiagan
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The "county high school phenomenon" of Chinese rural high school education to pursue higher education has attracted much attention from the education field and society. Earlier studies were mostly from the perspective of education and believed that the "county high school education model" was contrary to education's essence because it emphasized test-oriented education and restrained students' nature and should be discarded. However, this model is surprisingly persuasive for rural families, and it is also a reflection of the rural students' desire to achieve upward mobility through education. This paper analyzed the county high school education model's connotation, expounded its operating mechanism, and systematically demonstrated and analyzed the "county high school education model" from multiple angles. It aims to find a way out for the future development of the "county high school education model" to promote education equity between urban and rural areas and the harmonious development of high school education ecology.
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- 2020
23. A Capabilities Approach to Higher Education: Geocapabilities and Implications for Geography Curricula
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Walkington, Helen, Dyer, Sarah, Solem, Michael, Haigh, Martin, and Waddington, Shelagh
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A geographical education offers more than skills, subject knowledge and generic attributes. It also develops a set of discipline-specific capabilities that contribute to a graduate's future learning and experience, granting them special ways of thinking for lifelong development and for contributing to the welfare of themselves, their community and their world. This paper considers the broader purposes and values of disciplinary teaching in contributing to individual human development. Set in the context of recent debates concerning the role of the university and the neo-liberalisation of higher education this paper explores approaches to developing the geography curriculum in ways that re-assert the educational value of geographical thinking for students. Using international examples of teaching and learning practice in geography, we recognise five geocapabilities: use of the geographical imagination; ethical subject-hood with respect to the impacts of geographical processes; integrative thinking about society-environment relationships; spatial thinking; and the structured exploration of places. A capabilities approach offers a productive and resilient response to the threats of pedagogic frailty and increasingly generic learning in higher education. Finally, a framework to stimulate dialogue about curriculum development and the role of geocapabilities in the higher education curriculum is suggested.
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- 2018
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24. Rethinking the 'Global' in Global Higher Education Studies: From the Lens of the Chinese Idea of 'Tianxia'
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Yang, Lili and Tian, Lin
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This paper draws on the Chinese and English literature on the Chinese idea of "tianxia" (literally meaning all under heaven), with the objective of shedding new light on the discussion of the global in global higher education (studies). It argues that the "tianxia" idea embodies an approach to viewing the world that is fundamentally different from the dominant Euro-American worldviews, and contains unique merits in discussing global higher education phenomena. This approach highlights four elements in understanding the world: one-worldism (including the notion of thinking through the world and "tianxia weigong," literally meaning all under heaven belongs to and is for all), "he er butong" (diversity in harmony), an emphasis on virtues, values, and norms in global governance, and an ecological imagining of the world. The implications of the four elements for global higher education are also discussed.
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- 2022
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25. The Impacts of Incentives for International Publications on Research Cultures in Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences
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Xu, Xin, Oancea, Alis, and Rose, Heath
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Incentives for improving research productivity at universities prevail in global academia. However, the rationale, methodology, and impact of such incentives and consequent evaluation regimes are in need of scrutinization. This paper explores the influences of financial and career-related publishing incentive schemes on research cultures. It draws on an analysis of 75 interviews with academics, senior university administrators, and journal editors from China, a country that has seen widespread reliance on international publication counts in research evaluation and reward systems. The study focuses on humanities and social sciences (HSS) as disciplinary sites, which embody distinct characteristics and have experienced the introduction of incentive schemes in China since the early 2000s. Findings reveal tensions between internationalization and indigenization, quality and quantity, integrity and instrumentalism, equity and inequity in Chinese academia. In particular, we argue that a blanket incentive scheme could reinforce a managerial culture in higher education, encourage performative objectification of academics, and jeopardize their agency. We thereby challenge 'one-size-fits-all' policymaking, and suggest instead that institutions should have the opportunity to adopt an ethical and 'human-oriented' approach when developing their research incentives and evaluation mechanisms.
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- 2021
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26. Educational Experimental Research Design: Investigating the Effect of 'PAD + Microlectures' EAP Teaching Model on Chinese Undergraduates' Critical Thinking Development
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Liu, Lisha
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This paper presents an educational, experimental research design, aiming at examining the effect of "PAD + microlectures" EAP teaching model on Chinese undergraduates' critical thinking development. It mainly analyzes this experiment from four aspects: research question and hypotheses, difficulties in key term definitions and selection of measuring instruments, potential risks of the design, as well as the challenge of ethics. Such a methodological analysis shows that educational experiments should follow the disciplines of objectivity, feasibility, maneuverability, effectiveness, and innovation.
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- 2018
27. Observations of Health Care in China: Four Perspectives.
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Illinois Univ., Urbana. Dept. of Vocational and Technical Education. and Attwood, Madge
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This collection consists of four papers dealing with the delivery of health care in the People's Republic of China. The papers resulted from a study tour of the Chinese health care system in June 1980. Included in the volume are the following papers: "A Comparison of Selected Aspects of the Health Care Systems of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the People's Republic of China," by Ellen Hooker; "Ethics and Health Care in the People's Republic of China," by Bobby E. Adams; "Observations on Care of the Physically Disabled in the People's Republic of China," by Ann McElroy; and "China's Revolution in Health Care: Will It Continue?" by Madge Attwood. Extensive references are included. (MN)
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- 1983
28. 'Keep off the Lawn; Grass Has a Life Too!': Re-Invoking a Daoist Ecological Sensibility for Moral Education in China's Primary Schools
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Zhao, Weili and Sun, Caiping
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In 2001, China's moral education curriculum reform called for a "returning to life" as a radical shift from its previous empty sermonic pedagogy, hoping to cultivate its twenty-first century children into ethical humans. Accordingly, a notion of "human ecology" appeared in the post-2001 textbook design, which became "co-being with" in the latest 2016 textbook redesign. This paper picks up this "co-being with" as a philosophical, ethical, and ecological notion and scrutinizes its relevance to the discursive construction of China's moral child in two steps. First, it draws upon Heidegger's thinking and the Chinese Daoist ecological understanding to explicate the philosophical significance of this "co-being with" for moral education. Second, it unpacks the discursive embodiments of this ethical-ecological "co-being" with in connection with the construction of moral subjects in the post-2001 and 2016 textbooks. Through rigorous textual analysis, this paper finds that the post-2001 textbook discourses embody an instrumental trope and a subject vs object binary style of reasoning, which possibly makes egoistic rather than ethical children. The 2016 textbook discourses, especially those on the theme of "co-being with," however, constrain the above instrumentality and envision cultivating ethical children. This paper argues this theorized "co-being with" provides some implications for moral education in China and the world, meanwhile raising some pedagogical challenges as well.
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29. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (79th, Anaheim, CA, August 10-13, 1996). Advertising and Public Relations Division.
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Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
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The Advertising and Public Relations section of the proceedings contains the following 14 papers: "Toward an Understanding of Cultural Values Manifest in Advertising: A Content Analysis of Chinese Television Commercials from 1990 and 1995" (Hong Cheng); "The Impact of Advertising Distance on International Advertising: An Analysis of Creative Strategy in Magazine Advertisements from the U.S., Japan and Korea" (Yoo-Kyung Kim and Jan Slater); "'Kodak Moments' for Marketers: The Exposure Potential for Ads, Brands, Sponsors, and Symbols in Editorial Photographs in 'Sports Illustrated'" (James V. Pokrywczynski and others); "Effects of Celebrity Endorsement on Brand Recognition and Advertising Liking" (Xinshu Zhao and Huey-Chyi Chen); "The Impact of Age of Immigration and Length of Time in the U.S. on South Florida Immigrants' Use of Spanish Language Media" (Patricia B. Rose and Marylinn de la Maza); "Negotiation and Two-Way Models of Public Relations" (Kenneth D. Plowman); "Thomas Schindler and the Social Dimension of Ethics: Serious Questions for the Public Relations 'Culture'" (David L. Martinson); "The Effect of Chief Executive Officers' Misdeeds on the Companies They Represent: A Case Study of Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc. and Helmsley Corporation" (Erica Luongo); "Coverage of Public Relations on Network Television News: An Exploratory Census of Content" (Kevin L. Keenan); "Public Relations and the World Wide Web: Designing an Effective Homepage" (Michelle Henley and others); "Water Warfare in Scotland: A Case Study in Issues Management" (Kerry Anderson Crooks); "The Stories of Women Public Relations Campaign Planners Revealed through Feminist Theory and Feminist Scholarship" (Linda Aldoory); "It Depends: A Contingency Theory of Accommodation in Public Relations" (Amanda E. Cancel and others); and "Teaching Mass Communication Theory: A Perspective from Public Relations" (Kenneth D. Plowman). Individual papers contain references. (CR)
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30. A Review of Research Evidence on the Antecedents of Transformational Leadership
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Sun, Jingping, Chen, Xuejun, and Zhang, Sijia
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As the most-studied form of leadership across disciplines in both Western and Chinese contexts, transformational school leadership has the potential to suit diverse national and cultural contexts. Given the growing evidence showing the positive effects of transformational leadership on various school outcomes as it relates to school environment, teacher and student achievement, we wanted to explore the factors that gave rise to transformational leadership. The purpose of this study was to identify and compare the antecedents fostering transformational leadership in the contexts of both the United States and China. This paper reviews and discusses the empirical studies of the last two decades, concentrating on the variables that are antecedent to transformational leadership mainly in the educational context, but also in public management, business and psychology. Results show that transformational leadership is related to three sets of antecedents, which include: (1) the leader's qualities (e.g., self-efficacy, values, traits, emotional intelligence); (2) organizational features (e.g., organization fairness); and (3) the leader's colleagues' characteristics (e.g., follower's initial developmental level). Some antecedents were common to both contexts, while other antecedents appeared to be national context specific. The implications of the findings for future research and leader preparation in different national contexts are discussed.
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31. Proceedings of the National Technical Literacy Conference (8th, Arlington, Virginia, January 15-17, 1993).
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National Association for Science, Technology, and Society, University Park, PA.
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This document of conference proceedings is divided into five sections. The first, STS (Science Technology and Society) Studies, contains five papers: (1) "Scientific Discourse and Public Policy" (Jane C. Webb; George R. Webb; Charolette Webb); (2) "An Answer to Neil Postman's 'Technopoly'" (David K. Nations); (3) "Reflections on the Theory and Practice of Constructive Technology Assessment" (Jesse Tatum); (4) "Total Quality Management as An Ethics Issue Mediated by Technology Transfer in Unsolicited Sociotechnical Interventions" (Ely A. Dorsey) and (5) "'Silent Spring' The Myth of Two Cultures" (Doris Z. Fleisher). The second part is on women in science and technology, and also contains five papers: (1) "Ordinary and Extraordinary Women in Science" (Darlene S. Richardson; Connie J. Sutton); (2) "Women and Technology: Feminist Perspectives" (Linda Condron); (3) "Why Constructivist Classroom Practice Can Increase Participation of Women and People of Color in Science" (Barbara J. Reeves; Cheryl Ney); (4) "From Hostile Exclusion to Friendly Inclusion: Transforming the College Science Classroom" (Darlene S. Richardson; Maureen McHugh); and (5) a preliminary report on the NSF project discussed in the previous paper (Sue V. Rosser). The third section, Bioethics, Health, and Medicine, contains two sections: (1) "Breast Implants and the Challenge of An Informed Public" (R. Eugene Mellican); and (2) "Bioethics Event-based Future Worksheet" (Richard G. Dawson). The fourth section looks at STS in the Nonindustrialized World. The three articles are: (1) "Sustainable Development: Some Interpretations, Implications, and Uses" (Subodh Wagle); (2) "Transcending Efficiency's Dilemma: A View from the Coadaptationist Position" (Craig R. Duennen); and (3) "Urban Sustainability in an Industrializing Country Context: The Case of China" (John Byrne; Young-Doo Wang, Bo Shen; Congfang Wang, Ziuguo Li). The fifth and final section is devoted to education. The part on K-12 contains 18 articles. The section on higher education contains 10 articles. The part on research has four articles. (DK)
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32. From Researcher to Human Being: Fieldwork as Moral Laboratories
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Wu, Jinting
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This paper explores ethnographic fieldwork as moral laboratories. Drawing upon two episodes in my field encounters in Southwest China, I illustrate the nature of our method as a form of moral striving and experimentation. Fieldwork is a stage where practical actions become vulnerable ethical dramas in search for the situated good. Fieldwork recasts the ethnographer from researcher to human being and enacts the ethics of care and moral transformation in uncertain time.
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33. Globalisation, the Research Imagination and Deparochialising the Study of Education
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Lingard, Bob
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This paper works in dialogue with Arjun Appadurai's paper, "Grassroots globalization and the research imagination" in an attempt to outline some necessary changes in researching education in the multiple contexts of globalisation. The paper provides two narratives as part of this project, which Appadurai calls the "deparochialisation of the research ethic". The first narrative deals with the emergence of a "world or global educational policy field" and suggests that Bourdieu's epistemological disposition, work on fields and his late political critiques of neo-liberal globalisation provide a way to begin to deparochialise the national focus of educational policy studies. The second narrative deals with my own pedagogies in relation to a full time MA course in educational policy and practice in Sheffield, where most of the students are from China, and my work in the Caribbean on Sheffield's masters and doctoral programmes. The two narratives demonstrate that Bourdieu's work inflected by postcolonialism, the creolisation of research and theory as a two-way process of retranslation, and challenges to the dominant research ethic from post-positivist epsistemologies of many sorts collectively offer an important contribution towards deparochialising research in education.
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34. Understanding User Trust in Artificial Intelligence-Based Educational Systems: Evidence from China
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Qin, Fen, Li, Kai, and Yan, Jianyuan
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has penetrated the field of education. Trust has long been regarded as a driver for the acceptance of technology. Netnography and interviews were used to investigate trust in AI-based educational systems from the perspective of users. We identified the factors influencing trust in AI-based educational systems and categorized them as being related to technology, context and individual. Technology-related factors encompass functionality, helpfulness, interpretability, dependability and interaction interface. Context-related factors encompass benevolence of educational organizations, data management, teachers' competencies, official norms and knowledge characteristics. Individual-related factors encompass perception of the nature of learning, propensity to interact with teachers, perception of AI and autonomy orientation. The results from this paper will contribute to the literature on trust in technology and AI ethics in education.
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35. Commercial Genetic Testing and Its Governance in Chinese Society
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Sui, Suli and Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret
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This paper provides an empirical account of commercial genetic testing in China. Commercial predictive genetic testing has emerged and is developing rapidly in China, but there is no strict and effective governance. This raises a number of serious social and ethical issues as a consequence of the enormous potential market for such tests. The paper demonstrates that the commercialization of genetic testing and the lack of adequate regulation have created an environment in which dubious advertising practices and misleading and unprofessional medical advice are commonplace. The consequences of these ethically problematic activities for the users of predictive tests are unknown. The paper concludes with a bioethical and social science perspective on the ethical governance issues raised by the dissemination and utilization of commercial genetic testing in Chinese society.
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36. INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT Conference Paper Abstracts.
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INDUSTRIAL management ,FREE trade ,MARKET entry ,BUSINESS expansion ,MANAGEMENT ,FINANCIAL liberalization ,SOFTWARE piracy ,ORGANIZATIONAL behavior - Abstract
This section focuses on several studies presented at a conference on international management. The article, "The Impact of Trade Liberalization Policies on National Patters of Corruption and Software Piracy," focuses on the impact of trade liberalization policies on national patterns of corruption and software piracy. "Repetition of Foreign Market Entry Forms: Managerial and Organizational Drivers," studies the repetition of forms of entry in a foreign market by taking into account not only organizational factors but also the managerial risk determinants of such repetitions. "Foreign Expansion Under Uncertainty: A Strategic Real Options Perspective," investigates the expansion of 30 of the largest global manufacturing companies in 6 industries in China over the last 20 years.
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37. Why Chinese Universities Embrace Internationalization: An Exploration with Two Case Studies
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Zha, Qiang, Wu, Hantian, and Hayhoe, Ruth
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Internationalization has become a new landmark of Chinese higher education, measured by indicators such as personnel mobility, number of offshore/joint programs, and international publications. Chinese universities have moved from isolation to the forefront of internationalization in a short timeline and amid the dramatic expansion of Chinese higher education to a mass system since the late 1990s. This has set the context of the internationalization discourse. At the same time, Chinese upper- and middle-class families increasingly choose not to send their offspring to Chinese universities, but rather to study abroad. These developments add up to a puzzle as to how internationalization has helped lift the standards of Chinese higher education. Drawing on the glonacal agency heuristic, resource dependency theory, and the Ethical Internationalism in Higher Education (EIHE) perspective, this paper utilizes the case study of two Chinese universities to address such two research questions: (1) How have Chinese universities managed to rise so dramatically in terms of internationalization? and (2) Why do they embrace internationalization so enthusiastically and how does this benefit them?
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38. Influence of Sustainability Scholarship on Competencies -- An Empirical Evidence
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D'Souza, Clare, McCormack, Silvia, Taghian, Mehdi, Chu, Mei-Tai, Sullivan-Mort, Gillian, and Ahmed, Tanvir
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Purpose: Curricula is developing from a pure knowledge-based outcome to a more skill-based outcome, with the objective of creating and advancing competencies that meet employer expectations. While the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) demand organisations to change practices and adapt to sustainable goals, there is a lack of understanding in how competencies can enhance these goals. The purpose of this paper is twofold: Study 1 explores competencies related to sustainability required in a work force and examines employer perceptions on the existing literature for competencies. Study 2 empirically tests the influence of sustainability scholarship on non-technical competencies in the work force. Design/methodology/approach: A mixed method approach was undertaken. A sample of managers from 39 large Australian organisations participated in the scoping study. This was followed by further interviewing executives from 12 multinational corporations in China to assess the validity of competencies and provide deeper understanding of the issues at hand. The quantitative study analysed a sample of executive responses from 229 multinationals in China using factor and regression analysis to test for the effects of mediation. Findings: The research highlights that the underlying competencies regarding sustainability influences the bigger picture within firms for attaining sustainability. The affective and cognitive growth of sustainability scholarship is governed mainly by a firm's sustainable values. Core organisational values facilitate the development of non-technical competencies. These relationships and their cumulative effect on competencies provide a theoretical framework for acquiring sustainability within organisations. Employees need sustainability scholarship for enhancing sustainability. Sustainability scholarship reflects high-level learning obtained through universities or training. The research found that non-technical competencies such as professional ethical responsibility mediate between core business competencies and sustainability scholarship. Originality/value: By exploring employer's perception of competencies, the study first makes an important contribution in addressing the need to support SDGs by bridging organisational-level competencies and sustainability literacy, which hold significant benefits for practitioners, academia and organisations at large. Second, the theoretical findings strengthen the need for embedding competencies in the curriculum. It conveys the need for sustainability literacy/scholarship to align with organisational training and learning pedagogies, in order to effectively meet industry needs. Third, it provides useful insights on employers' estimation about workplace competencies and broadens our understanding on the contribution that competencies within organisations make to this end.
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39. Student Teachers' Emotions, Dilemmas, and Professional Identity Formation amid the Teaching Practicums
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Deng, Li, Zhu, Gang, Li, Guofang, Xu, Zhihong, Rutter, Amanda, and Rivera, Hector
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This research frames student teachers' professional identity formation through the lenses of emotions and dilemmas based on semi-structured interviews and emotional journals. Utilizing grounded-theory analysis method, this paper reveals a pattern of the emotional trajectories that the six student teachers experienced from the beginning to the end of the practicums: eagerness and anxiety at the beginning of the teaching practicums, shock and embarrassment immediately after the student teaching, anger and puzzlement at the middle of the internship, helplessness and loneliness toward the end of the practicums, and guilt and regret after the teaching practice. Furthermore, the participants were faced with four dilemmas: (1) tensions between classroom authority and the ethic of caring, (2) acting as a community member or an "outsider," (3) working as an office assistant or a "real teacher," (4) conflicting pedagogies regarding teaching different academic performance levels of students. All these dilemmas contribute to the complexity of the teaching practicum in China. Finally, implications for teacher education, especially for preservice teachers' pedagogy of identity and ethical professionalism, are discussed.
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40. Ethics and Corporal Punishment within the Schools across the Globe
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Rajdev, Usha
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This paper contains cultural anthropological research on various discipline measures used within the classrooms in India, United Kingdom, China, Africa, and the United States. My recent visit to schools in India on study abroad programs prompted my desire to research across the globe different methods of classroom management discipline conducted within the schools. Findings suggest that corporal punishment is being favored among most countries. Hitting or yelling at a child, a common practice in some schools is not ethically acceptable by me, as an educator, nor by my students who witnessed several incidences whilst in India. We were caught in the ethics verses culturally acceptable norm "dilemma". The purpose of this paper is not to devise specific discipline measures at this juncture, but rather to investigate the acceptable practices within the classrooms in the above stated countries. Implications for this only further my ethical obligations and challenges that lie ahead.
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41. IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T 2012) Proceedings (25th, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, April 17-19, 2012)
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
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The Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T) is the premier international peer-reviewed conference, sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) Computer Society, which addresses all major areas related to software engineering education, training, and professionalism. This year, as in previous years, the conference focused on three themes: (1) How can we incorporate leading-edge research developments into academic programs? (2) How can we ensure that academic programs match actual "real world" needs? and (3) What are the current and future issues in education and training for software engineering? Full papers presented in this proceedings include: (1) Changes in Transferable Knowledge Resulting from Study in a Graduate Software Engineering Curriculum (Ray Bareiss, Todd Sedano, and Edward Katz); (2) A Role-Playing Game for a Software Engineering Lab: Developing a Product Line (Sara Zuppiroli, Paolo Ciancarini, and Maurizio Gabbrielli); (3) The Exploration and Practice of Gradually Industrialization Model in Software Engineering Education--A Factual Instance of the Excellent Engineer Plan of China (Shu Liu, Peijun Ma, and Dong Li); (4) Learning to Write Programs with Others: Collaborative Quadruple Programming (Ritu Arora and Sanjay Goel); (5) Will They Report It? Ethical Attitude of Graduate Software Engineers in Reporting Bad News (A. S. M. Sajeev and Ivica Crnkovic); (6) Delivering Software Process-Specific Project Courses in Tertiary Education Environment: Challenges and Solution (Guoping Rong and Dong Shao); and (7) Experiences with Integrating Simulation into a Software Engineering Curriculum (Andreas Bollin, Elke Hochmuller, Roland Mittermeir, and Ladislav Samuelis). Additional sections include: (1) Workshops; (2) Tutorials; (3) Short Papers; (4) Work-in-Progress Papers; (5) Panel Sessions; and (6) Author Index. (Individual papers contain tables, figures, and references.)
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42. Cultivating Engineering Ethics and Critical Thinking: A Systematic and Cross-Cultural Education Approach Using Problem-Based Learning
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Chang, Pei-Fen and Wang, Dau-Chung
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In May 2008, the worst earthquake in more than three decades struck southwest China, killing more than 80,000 people. The complexity of this earthquake makes it an ideal case study to clarify the intertwined issues of ethics in engineering and to help cultivate critical thinking skills. This paper first explores the need to encourage engineering ethics within a cross-cultural context. Next, it presents a systematic model for designing an engineering ethics curriculum based on moral development theory and ethic dilemma analysis. Quantitative and qualitative data from students' oral and written work were collected and analysed to determine directions for improvement. The paper also presents results of an assessment of this interdisciplinary engineering ethics course. This investigation of a disaster is limited strictly to engineering ethics education; it is not intended to assign blame, but rather to spark debate about ethical issues. (Contains 2 tables and 1 figure.)
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43. Climate Change and Morality: Students' Perspectives on the Individual and Society
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Sternang, Li and Lundholm, Cecilia
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There is a growing interest in addressing moral aspects in the research and education of socio-scientific issues. This paper investigates students' interpretations of climate change from a moral perspective. The students were 14 years old, studying at Green Schools in the Beijing area, China. The study was based on semi-structured group interviews and the data were analysed from an intentional perspective, which means that both cognitive and situational aspects were taken into consideration in the analysis. Previous research has revealed a close relation between morality and socio-scientific issues and also advocated the need for addressing ethical aspects in science education. However, empirical studies exploring the question of what students' moral reasoning might look like at the individual level have not yet generated enough attention. In this study this is the core focus of interest. The findings show that the students conceptualise the solutions to mitigating climate change in relation to two different stances. That is, they contextualise the problems and solutions by addressing the individual, where the individual is either "myself" or "someone else". The different notions of the individual become crucial as the students' views and considerations for the environment, as well as society, change according to the different contexts. From a moral point of view, the students seem quite unaware of their varying consideration for others, the environment and society. The paper ends with a discussion of implications for practice and research. (Contains 1 figure.)
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44. An Examination of Personal Values and Value Systems of Chinese and U.S. Business Students
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Giacomino, Don E., Li, Xin, and Michael D. Akers
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Using the Rokeach Value Survey and the Musser and Orke typology this paper examines the personal values and value systems of business students in China and compares the results with the results of a recent study that used similar methodology to examine the values and value systems of U.S. students. The study also examines the differences in values and value systems of the Chinese students by gender and by major. While there are few differences for the Chinese students by gender, our findings show several differences in the rankings of values by the Chinese and U.S. students as well as differences in value systems. Implications for accounting education are discussed.
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45. Sensitive Educational Research in Small States and Territories: The Case of Macau
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Morrison, Keith
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This paper explores the sensitivities of conducting educational research in small states and territories, where the very act of conducting research, aside from its purposes or focuses, is itself a sensitive matter. The paper takes a "critical case study" of Macau and examines cultural, educational, political, micro-political, interpersonal and practical issues, overlaid by characteristics of Chinese culture, that must be factored into the planning and conduct of research in the territory. It suggests that compromises and trade-offs have to be made in educational research in small states and territories, and argues that researchers must anticipate a range of problems in advance, and, through ingenuity, networking and sensitivity, overcome them. The magnification of sensitivities in small states and territories contributes to their special educational ecology; investigating these is frequently an interpersonal as well as a research matter. (Contains 6 tables.)
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46. 'I Wish to Be Wordless': Philosophizing through the Chinese 'Guqin'
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Tan, Leonard and Lu, Mengchen
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In classical Greek philosophy, the pursuit of Truth was done primarily through logical argumentation using language as "Truth tool." The major thinkers in classical China, on the other hand, were famously suspicious of language, with Confucius declaring, "I wish to be wordless." They turned instead to music to express the philosophically ineffable. In this paper, we use the example of the Chinese "guqin" to show how music serves as "Truth tool" in the Chinese philosophical tradition; in fact, music may be Truth itself. Through a quartet of interrelated themes--namely, the "Search for Truth," the "Search for Harmony," the "Search for Ethical Awakening," and the "Search for Sagehood"--we show how playing the "guqin" constitutes the doing of philosophy in this musical tradition. Through the "guqin," performers and listeners experience Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist philosophical insights; no words are needed. We conclude by proffering implications for contemporary music education.
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47. Vocational Education and Training for Life Long Learning in the Information Era. IVETA [International Vocational Education and Training Association] Conference Proceedings (Hong Kong, China, August 6-9, 2000).
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Vocational Training Council (Hong Kong). and International Vocational Education and Training Association, Knoxville, TN.
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This document contains 123 papers from an international conference on vocational education and training (VET) for lifelong learning in the information era. The papers focus on the following themes: (1) societal and ethical issues; (2) human resource development and personnel training; (3) international issues; (4) information technology in VET; (5) partnership for VET; (6) program development; and (7) skills for the new millennium. The following are among the subthemes addressed in the individual papers: manpower planning; social issues; cross-border and culture issues; partnership issues; modeling and process; future directions; training effectiveness; language teaching; curriculum development and competency; curriculum and standards; leadership and professional development; distance education; program development; new information technology initiatives; teacher training; workplace initiatives; program outcomes; teaching and learning; VET in the workplace; modeling and training; teaching practice and assessment; educational approaches; industrialization and technological change; learning systems; management and planning; program design and teaching; competency and benchmarking; technological issues; knowledge development in VET; Web-based learning; impacts of VET; strategies and partnerships; pedagogical issues; skill testing, work-based training, and industrial partnerships; and international and multinational issues. Most papers contain substantial bibliographies. (MN)
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- 2000
48. BUSINESS POLICY & STRATEGY Conference Paper Abstracts.
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INDUSTRIAL policy ,BUSINESS planning ,ECONOMIC competition ,VENTURE capital - Abstract
The article presents abstracts on business policy and strategy topics which include the complexities of top management team (TMT) composition, insights about dynamic capabilities observed from simulated evolving competition, and venture capital syndication in China.
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- 2010
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49. Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD) Conference Proceedings (Atlanta, Georgia, March 6-9, 1997).
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Academy of Human Resource Development, Austin, TX. and Torraco, Richard J.
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These proceedings begin with the schedule, conference committee membership lists, and detailed agenda of the 1997 conference of the Academy of Human Resource Development, which explored the future of human resource development (HRD). Presented next are papers on HRD from scholars affiliated with organizations from 12 countries. The papers are grouped by the conference's 34 symposium topics: university instruction in HRD; evaluation in HRD; strategic HRD; international HRD perspectives; informal workplace learning; enhancing team performance; research issues in HRD; adult learning in the workplace; changing organizational forms; instructional technology; work analysis and expertise; work force issues facing HRD; essential competencies for internal and external organizational development consultants; transfer of learning; learning organization practices; university HRD programs; HRD and performance outcomes; contextual learning issues; organization development and change; integrity in HRD; assessing the learning organization; leadership and executive development; advancing the profession through journals; charting the future of HRD; measurement and research tools; the purpose and place of HRD; global HRD; motivation to learn and perform; enhancing individual readiness; linking HRD practice and research; career issues in organizations; performance improvement processes; management development; assessing employee skills; and individual learning issues. (MN)
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- 1997
50. Whose ethics of care? The geographies of live‐in elder care in China.
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Yu, Jie and Rosenberg, Mark W.
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ELDER care ,OLDER people ,ETHICS ,ELECTRICITY markets ,ELECTRICAL load ,GEOGRAPHY ,FRAIL elderly - Abstract
Reflecting on different theoretical premises within geographies of care, this paper develops their connections and responds to the normativity and universalism in care literature through conceptualising live‐in elder care (LEC). Considering the relationality of differential contributions to care, we propose a conceptualisation of multiple interrelated approaches by: (1) extending the critical frameworks of care to understand the broader frames of institution, market, and morality in mediating interpersonal connectedness of elder care; (2) thinking care relationally, we challenge the dominant conceptualisation of care and power as unidirectional flows and elder care relationships as a receiver–giver dyad; (3) emplacing care, we focus on the actual conditions of care through which ethics are assembled in their geo‐historical context; (4) treating care as grounded, we centre voices from both older people and LEC workers and how ethics of care are comprehended in the everyday rather than prescribed for commodified care. Our thematic analysis starts with a commodification process where LEC is negotiated in tensions; yet moving beyond arguments around systems of dominance and ideal ethics of care, findings show LEC also creates a space of care where LEC workers and older people constantly negotiate norms, boundaries, and care as a relational process. Conceptually, this paper recognises the role of power in shaping the market and intimate relationships of elder care by elaborating on the inequities of age, gender, and place (not just gender). Moving beyond critiques, this paper emphasises the entangled and relational nature of care as grounded in a series of everyday concerns and resistance, where ethics of difference are negotiated and a cultural‐historical configuration of care still perpetuates in its locale. Finally, this paper speaks to the active yet overlooked role of age and ageing in constructing an ethics of care. This paper recognises the role of power in shaping the market and intimate relationships of elder care by elaborating on the inequities of age, gender, and place (not just gender). Moving beyond critiques, this paper emphasises the relational nature of care as grounded and emplaced in a series of everyday concerns and resistance, where ethics of difference are negotiated and a cultural‐historical configuration of care still perpetuates in its locale. Finally, this paper speaks to the active yet overlooked role of age and ageing in constructing an ethics of care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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