Nordic-Chinese Intersections within Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Intersections in Education: Blending Chinese and Nordic Perspectives

   • Fred Dervin, Haiqin Liu, Xiangyun Du

   Pages 1-17

3. Experiencing Each Other’s Education

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. The Role of the Migration Industry in Chinese Student Migration to Finland: Towards a New Meso-level Approach

      • Hanwei Li

      Pages 21-49

   3. Chinese University Leaders’ Perceptions of Effective Transnational Professional Development

      • Xin Xing

      Pages 51-75

   4. Narrative Inquiry of Beginner Teachers’ Experience and Changes in Beliefs in the Danish Secondary School Context

      • Li Wang

      Pages 77-104

4. Nordic-Chinese Intersections: Conceptual and Methodological Aspects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. Beyond Comparative Methods in Research on Transnational Education Cooperation: A Proposed Theoretical Model for Examining Contextual Complexities

      • Jin Hui Li

      Pages 107-125

   3. Lutheranism and Confucianism Between National Education and Globalization: A Theoretical Discussion

      • Mette Buchardt, Xiangyun Du

      Pages 127-150

   4. Twenty-First Century Competencies in the Chinese Science Curriculum

      • Yan Wang, Jari Lavonen, Kirsi Tirri

      Pages 151-171

   5. Policy Intersections in Education for the Gifted and Talented in China and Denmark

      • Annette Rasmussen

      Pages 173-193

5. Transnational Cooperation in Education: Policies and Practices

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195

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   2. Comparing Doctoral Education in China and Finland: An Institutional Logics Perspective

      • Gaoming Zheng, Jussi Kivistö, Wenqin Shen, Yuzhuo Cai

      Pages 197-231

   3. Experience of Sino-Finnish Joint Degree Provision: Practitioners’ Perspectives

      • Yuzhuo Cai, Baocun Liu, Chujun Xiao

      Pages 233-256

   4. Contemporary Danish Strategies of Internationalisation Through Student Mobility with China: The Development of Instrumentality in Interculturality

      • Niels Erik Lyngdorf

      Pages 257-272

   5. Educational Patriotism Inspired by China?

      • Arild Tjeldvoll

      Pages 273-291

   6. Conclusion: Comparing Chinese and Nordic Education Systems—Some Advice

      • Ning Chen, Fred Dervin

      Pages 293-300

6. Back Matter

   Pages 301-304

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This book examines how the two educational systems of China and the Nordic countries intersect. Over the past decade, there has been increased growth and interaction between China and the Nordic countries due to both government encouragement and academic curiosity. This book rejects a simplistic approach that presents both spaces as culturally uniform, confronting ‘East’ and ‘West’ entities, and suggests a comparative and contrastive approach that is critical and reflexive in both theory and methodology. This does not solely concentrate on difference, but emphasises similarities, including studies on philosophical, conceptual and methodological issues. This nuanced edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of Nordic and Chinese education as well as globalisation and interculturality. 

• China
• Scandinavia
• Norway
• International students
• Student mobility
• cross cultural
• intercultural education

• Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

  Haiqin Liu

• Department of Education, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

  Fred Dervin

• College of Education, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

  Xiangyun Du

Haiqin Liu is Researcher at the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her research interests include multilingual education, interculturality and international teacher education.


Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He specializes in intercultural education, the sociology of multiculturalism and academic mobility.


Xiangyun Du is Professor at the College of Education, Qatar University, Qatar, and Aalborg UNESCO Centre for Problem Based Learning in Engineering Science and Sustainability, Aalborg University, Denmark. Her main research interests include pedagogical development, particularly problem-based and project-based learning methods.

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