Teacher Education Reform and National Development in China (1978-2017): Four Metaphors

Liao, Wei; Zhou, Yisu

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“…Both professions serve the same clientele, school-aged children and their parents. However, at the core, public schoolteachers enjoy a stable working environment with improving compensation (Ye et al, 2019) as the Chinese government has vigorously invested in the professionalization of the schoolteacher workforce in recent decades (Liao and Zhou, 2020).…”

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Teaching under opportunism: The predicament of academic tutors in China

Pan¹,

Zhou²

2022

International Sociology

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Academic tutoring as a supplementary form of education has quickly spread across China. Tutoring has attracted young college-educated practitioners and has become a highly organized industry. The industry is fast-churning and opportunistic. This article examines the nature of tutors’ work using the qualitative data of 31 tutors and their managers in Beijing. Characteristics of tutoring are typical of precarious service labor with irregular work schedules, blurred work–life boundaries, and artificial emotional labor. However, we also found that tutors’ work was constrained by their invisible neighbor, schoolteachers, in a linked professional ecology. Tutors have limited jurisdiction over daily tasks and perform reactionary teaching based on school subjects. This lack of control has allowed the industry to rationalize their work, making tutors disposable. Our research offers new insights into the linked professions of tutors and schoolteachers. It enriches the concept of precarious and opportunistic labor practices from the sociology of professions perspective.

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Section: Precarious Labor and The Teaching Professionmentioning

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Teaching under opportunism: The predicament of academic tutors in China

Pan¹,

Zhou²

2022

International Sociology

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“…To shed light on this policy, it is worthwhile to consider teacher education and national development. In a seminal working paper of Liao & Zhou (2018), they propose four metaphorical roles (i.e., cornerstone, engine, equalizer, and window) about the specific ways in which teacher education can support national development. Teacher education in China closely relates to its policies and legislation for national development which in turn have significantly improved the teacher education enterprise.…”

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Influence of college teachers’ job skills on teaching output of non-education graduates

2022

Central European Management Journal

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Teacher quality fosters student learning with emphasis on teacher preparation and performance. Hence, this study explored on a metasynthesis of teacher job skills' influence on non-education graduates' teaching output. Literature reviews provide support to the claim that pre-service education matters in charting the direction of teacher professionals regardless of the nature of their teacher preparation. Non-education graduates in the teaching profession, however, face more challenges than their education graduates' counterparts as they perform in teaching with emphasis on their job skills through communication, interpersonal, pedagogical, and instructional leadership. The teaching output of non-education graduates necessitates an educational atmosphere where active teachers demonstrate their influence pressing students to develop academically and professionally.

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Teacher Education Reform and National Development in China (1978-2017): Four Metaphors

Abstract: A short history of teacher education reform in China after 1978.

Cited by 2 publications

References 17 publications

Teaching under opportunism: The predicament of academic tutors in China

Teaching under opportunism: The predicament of academic tutors in China

Influence of college teachers’ job skills on teaching output of non-education graduates

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