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  title info:
    title: Teacher Mediated Agency in Educational Reform in China
  name:
    name part: Yang, Hongzhi.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 213 p. 14 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book examines teacher agency in implementing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) curriculum reform in the Chinese university context. It theorizes the concept of teacher agency from a sociocultural theory perspective and draws on a study conducted in a conservative and less developed area in China. The book uses Engeström's activity theory and Vygotsky's concept of the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) to understand the nature and extent of teacher agency in adapting one’s teaching with respect to beliefs, knowledge, and instructional practices. The study concludes that curriculum reform in China needs to shift from reliance on 'top-down' policies to 'bottom-up' implementation that mobilizes local understandings and practices. One of the implications of this study is that transformative teacher education programs aimed at developing teacher pedagogical agency require that teachers have ongoing opportunities to design, develop, and evaluate curriculum-based mediational means.
  table of contents: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: A Sociocultural Perspective on Teacher Agency -- Chapter 3: Advanced Activity Systems -- Chapter 4: The Case Study of Sunny - The Prisoner -- Chapter 5: The Case Study of Jenny - The Unresponsive Apprentice -- Chapter 6: The Case Study of Lynne - The Reflective Practitioner -- Chapter 7: Discussion and Conclusion -- Appendices.
  note: by Hongzhi Yang.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Curriculums (Courses of study)
  subject:
    topic: Education
    topic: Curricula
  subject:
    topic: Language and education
  subject:
    topic: Educational sociology
  subject:
    topic: Education and sociology
  subject:
    topic: Sociology, Educational
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Language Education
  subject:
    topic: Curriculum Studies
  subject:
    topic: Sociology of Education
  classification: LC8-6691
  classification: 407.1
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: English Language Education, 3
  identifier: 9783319159256
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15925-6
  record info:
    record creation date: 150326
    record change date: 20151120180831.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-15925-6