Titlebook: Navigating Educational Change in China; Contemporary History Fang Wang,Leslie N.K. Lo Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Autho

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Balancing the Indigenous and the Foreign,ce of the centrality of the individual has empowered people to embrace choice and assume responsibility. However, the importation of Western ideas and practices has created tensions in education and society. They challenged Chinese educators to re-examine their instrumental approach to education and

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Navigating Educational Change,ing these changes are discussed in relation to China’s educational transformation. The circumstances underlying his choice of career paths and professional pursuits delineate the kind of opportunities and challenges that are embedded in Chinese organization and society. The narrative of his experien

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Book 2018f early influences, significant others, challenges and opportunities, human agency, and professional capital. His story illustrates the vicissitudes of a long career that combines scholarship and administration, and offers lessons for survival, advancement, and leadership in the fluid environment of Chinese higher education institutions.?

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Introduction,ate the intellectual and professional pathways of one Chinese professor who has served as a scholar, teacher, and administrators in Chinese higher education. From interviews that have spanned several years, his views constitute a reflection on the complexity of educational change in China through the lens of a senior academic.

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Memories and Imageries,losophy. The professor enjoyed teaching and research, as well as the new status of a legitimate academic. New appointments enabled his ascension in the university’s administration, but a growing awareness of the chasm between ideas and practice in the field of education led him to ask: “What am I doing?”

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Book 2018n the academe, from political worker to dean of faculty. It narrates his journey through different layers of historical, societal, and institutional transformation while trying to make sense of his own life and work. In this book, the professor is situated at the intersection of history, culture, an