Overview
- Proposes an initial analytical framework for investigating the conceptual, practical and strategic dimensions of Chinese faculty development
- Provides unique standpoints to illustrate and analyze the faculty development model from an interdisciplinary perspective
- Offers an intensive debate and discourse on the conceptual, practical, and strategic elements of faculty development
Part of the book series: Perspectives on Rethinking and Reforming Education (PRRE)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Conceptual Faculty Development at Chinese Context
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Practical Faculty Development at Chinese Context
Keywords
- Faculty Development
- Chinese Contextual Faculty Development
- Chinese Characteristic Faculty Development Model
- Chinese Faculty Profession
- Chinese Faculty Academia
- Comparative Higher Education
- Globalization of Higher Education
- Internationalization of Higher Education
- Chinese Higher Education
- Chinese Education
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Jian Li and Xudong Zhu serve as co-first author to contribute this book.
Jian Li is an assistant professor at the China Institute of Education and Social Development at Beijing Normal University. She received her Ph.D. degree from Indiana University Bloomington, USA. Dr. Li’s general area of scholarship is the assessment of global competency and global learning within higher education institutions, an area in which she has pursued four themes: higher education policy and management; undergraduate students’ global learning performance assessment; faculty global perspective within higher education; and global learning and development as a framework for institutional research. Dr. Li has published over 20 articles and book chapters, and delivered over 30 workshops and seminars and more than 10 keynote, peer-reviewed and invited presentations throughout the U.S. and in Europe, Africa,and Asia.​Xudong Zhu is a professor at the Institute of Teacher Education and Dean of the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University. His work focuses on teacher education, comparative education and the history of education, with an emphasis on transforming the teacher education system in China, comparative studies on national development and education, and the history of ideas of education in the west. Much of his work has involved the policy and practice of teacher education and teacher professional development, aspects that he has researched in China, with the World Bank, UNESCO, Intel, etc. He is the Secretary of the National Expert Committee of Teacher Education of MOE in China, and Director of the Center for Teacher Education Research among the Key Research Institutes of Humanities and Social Sciences in University of MOE. He is also the Director of the Institute of Teacher Education at Beijing Normal University, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Teacher Education Research, China.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Faculty Development in Chinese Higher Education
Book Subtitle: Concepts, Practices, and Strategies
Authors: Xudong Zhu, Jian Li
Series Title: Perspectives on Rethinking and Reforming Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7767-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-7766-2Published: 28 May 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-7769-3Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-7767-9Published: 18 May 2019
Series ISSN: 2366-1658
Series E-ISSN: 2366-1666
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 220
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 36 illustrations in colour
Topics: Higher Education, International and Comparative Education, Professional & Vocational Education