Hovering Between Educational Ideals and Reality: An Ethnographic Inquiry into Beijing High School CLA Teachers’ Bodily Experiences in Curriculum Change

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dc.contributor.authorWang, Wei
dc.contributor.supervisorSanford, Kathy
dc.date.accessioned2014-05-01T20:01:29Z
dc.date.available2014-05-01T20:01:29Z
dc.date.copyright2014en_US
dc.date.issued2014-05-01
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe eighth educational reform in China is experiencing a critical period. In the implementation process of this New Curriculum Reform (NCR), teachers become the target of criticism for their failure to act on the new ideas of the NCR. This research focuses on the question, “Why teachers accept the ideas of the NCR yet fail to implement these ideas in their daily teaching?” Through reflecting on my own teaching experience and interviewing a group of Chinese Language Arts teachers in a Beijing model high school, I collected qualitative data to create 8 ethnographic stories, showing teachers’ bodily, emotional and intrapersonal experiences that are rarely published in the academic world. Conclusions show that the coexistence of the new and old curriculum systems causes the discordance of school cultures, and teachers are suffering silently. Recommendations are made for researchers returning to teachers’ bodily experiences for solutions that can integrate reform ideals and reality.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0727en_US
dc.description.proquestemailwwang15473@gmail.comen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/5353
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectChinaen_US
dc.subjectHigh schoolen_US
dc.subjectEducational reformen_US
dc.subjectBodyen_US
dc.subjectBodily experienceen_US
dc.subjectTeacheren_US
dc.subjectFictional ethnographyen_US
dc.subjectAuto-ethnographyen_US
dc.titleHovering Between Educational Ideals and Reality: An Ethnographic Inquiry into Beijing High School CLA Teachers’ Bodily Experiences in Curriculum Changeen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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