This book gathers selected original papers presented at the Sixth Beijing Normal University - University College London, Institute of Education International Conference in Education, a biennial event organised in partnership between this two universities. Readers will find a wealth of papers and reports on research involving schools and the initial and professional development of teachers, revealing links between research, policy and practice, while also analyzing key themes in education, including public goals and policies, pedagogy, curricula, organisation, resources and technologies, and institutional effectiveness. An essential guide for anyone who wishes to understand the main issues involved in mobilities of ideas, people and technology in the field of education, the book offers an extensive introduction, and can also be used as a resource for empirical and conceptual research into related issues.

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Prof. Xudong Zhu is an expert on comparative and teacher education as well as foreign education history. He is the dean of the Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, the general secretary of Teacher Education Committee of Experts at the Ministry of Education, the director of the Center for Teacher Education Research, one of the Key Research Institutes of Humanities and Social Sciences at Universities, Ministry of Education. and a senior visiting scholar in the Fulbright Program at the University of Maryland. He has published more than eighty papers, ten books, and edited four series.
Prof. Jiayong Li is the vice dean for the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences Research and the immediate past vice dean of the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University. He has been involved in teaching, research and administration at the University for more than twenty years. Prof. Li's research interest is international and comparative education, with special focus on teacher education, curriculum studies, and private education. He is also editor of the Journal of Educational Studies published in Beijing. Prof. Li has published more than ten books, and over twenty articles and consultation papers.
Prof. Mang Li is the vice dean for Faculty of Education and vice director of the Centre for Faculty Development at Beijing Normal University, the director of Institute of Teaching Behaviour and a member of the Teaching Committee at the Ministry of Education of China.  He presides over the Higher Education Quality Course and the National Online Sharing Course. He has won the Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences Research Outstanding Achievement Award. Late Prof. Qiang Liu was an associate professor of International and Comparative Education at Beijing Normal University, and a key member of the APEC Higher Education Research Center, approved by the Ministry of Education of China, and of the APEC Secretariat.  His research interests focused on internationalization of higher education, cross-border education, and educational finance. He has published two monographs and more than 20 peer-reviewed articles and undertaken a number of key research projects in the areas of comparative education. Prof. Hugh Starkey is Professor of Citizenship and Human Rights Education at UCL Institute of Education, London. His research focuses on education for democratic citizenship, human rights and social justice in a globalized world.  He is founding co-director of the International Centre for Education for Democratic Citizenship and editor of the London Review of Education. He has acted as a consultant for several governments and the Council of Europe, UNESCO, the European Commission and the British Council.

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Theme 1: IDEAS.- Philosophy of Confucian Consultative Democracy under China's Governance: A Case Study on Teachers' Participation in Decision-making for School Affairs.- The Role of Assistive Technologies in the Learning of Visually Impaired Young People at a Rural Tanzanian Secondary School.- A Political Economy of English in Japan: The Consumption of English as Investment and Leisure.- Reform and Practice of Teaching Classical Reading Courses of General Education in an Independent College.- Teachers' Understandings of the 2011 PRC Curriculum for Teaching English.- From Role To Self: A Study on the Identity of the Mainland Teacher in the Context of Education Reform.- A Curriculum Designed for the Children with Pediatric Cancer in a Chinese Children's Hospital.- Teaching Values in British Multicultural Society: Policies, Programmes and Implications.- Global Citizen and General Education in China Research UniversityBased on the Case Study of Sociology Course.- A Research on Teacher Education Standards Mobilities from Foreign Countries to Chinese Context.- How to Improve Chinese Undergraduate Critical Thinking in the Classroom: From the Perspective of Critical Theory.- Research on Teachers' Teaching Behavior in the Classroom of Modern Apprenticeship in Higher Vocational Colleges.- Mobility of Ideas: Across the Border of Culture.- Theme 2: PEOPLE.- Educating a Global Citizen: A Cross-Country Comparable Study on How UNESCO Aspnet Secondary Schools Implement Principles of Global Citizenship into their Curricula.- The Eco-construction of Basic Education Course in Multicultural Vision.- Transnational Professional Development for Chinese Educational Leaders: Case studies from China and Finland.- Empirical Research on the Foreign Student's Cross-cultural Education in ChinaA Case Study on South-Asia Teacher-Training Class of Teaching and Practice Innovation.- Why Ad hoc Post Teachers Want to Leave from Rural Schools: Case Study about Ad Hoc Post Teachers in China.- Factors Effecting International Student Mobility between China and Germany.- Student Choice and Educational Quality: Case Study of Gansu Province, China.- Theme 3: TECHNOLOGY.- Supporting a SEN School and the Teachers in Creating an App for Language Development.- Tutors Management in Open and Distance Education in U.K. and in China.- Education Innovation Powered by ICT.