Scholars from three continents collaborate to create a truly global understanding of curriculum in the world's most populous country. This book discusses major topics in curriculum studies in China and shows how Chinese scholars understand their field's history, circumstances, and place in a globalized world.

"Curriculum studies in China presents a panoramic view of curriculum change in modern Chinese universities. Pinar's book elaborates fully on the issues concerning educators today. This book is unique and worth reading for researchers, graduate students, and policy makers to understand how China's social change is linked with curriculum reform, and its impact on Chinese education." - Wanhua Ma, Professor of Education, and Director, Center of International Higher Education, Peking University, China

"Curriculum Studies in China is an outstanding example deconstructing the recent curriculum reforms as well as the history of curriculum studies. The book presents how curriculum studies in China is dealing with both tradition Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and a "secularized" insertion into a globalized economy. It vividly demonstrates how curriculum studies in China is welcoming difference in order to enhance their distinctiveness." - Elizabeth Macedo, Professor of Curriculum and Associate Provost at State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; President of the International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies

Autorentext
Hua Zhang, Hangzhou Normal University, China Yuting Chen, Tiajin Academy of Educational Sciences, China Lixing Cong, Beijing Normal University, China Changyun Kang, Beijing Normal University, China Yunpeng Ma, Northeast Normal University, China Wenjun Zhang, Zhejiang University, China Huixia Zhou, Baotou Teachers' College, China Jian Liu, National Center for School Curriculum, China

Inhalt

1. Curriculum Studies and Curriculum Reform in China: 1922-2012; Zhang Hua 2. From Follower to Creator: The School as a Reform Subject; Chen Yuting 3. The Question of the Textbook in Curriculum Reform: An Autobiographical Account; Kang Changyun 4. Curriculum Research in China; Cong Lixin 5. Integrating Elementary Mathematics into Curriculum Studies: A Personal Course of Study in Curriculum Studies; Ma Yunpeng 6. Growing with Postmodernism: A Story of Curriculum Studies in China; Zhang Wenjun 7. The Development of Curriculum Ideologies and the Present Circumstances of Curriculum Studies in China; Zhou Huixia 8. From 1980 to 2010: The Thirty-year Course of My Study and Research; Liu Jian 9. The Exchanges with Alicia de Alba; William F. Pinar 10. The Exchanges with Tero Autio; William F. Pinar 11. The Exchanges with Janet L. Miller; William F. Pinar 12. Curriculum Studies in China: Reform, Culture, History; William F. Pinar Epilogue: The Participants Comment