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Participation or eschewal? Final-year secondary school students’ attitudes towards participation in higher education in Cameroon (2022)
Journal Article
Zhao, T., & Xu, Y. (2022). Participation or eschewal? Final-year secondary school students’ attitudes towards participation in higher education in Cameroon. South African Journal of Education, 42(4), Article 2126. https://doi.org/10.15700/saje.v42n4a2126

In this article we examine students’ attitudes towards participation in higher education in Cameroon and consider the role of personal and socioeconomic factors in their post-school educational trajectories. The data were drawn from a questionnaire s... Read More about Participation or eschewal? Final-year secondary school students’ attitudes towards participation in higher education in Cameroon.

Academic Career Development of Chinese Returnees With Overseas Ph.D. Degrees: A Bioecological Development Perspective (2022)
Journal Article
Liu, D., Xu, Y., Zhao, T., & Che, S. (2022). Academic Career Development of Chinese Returnees With Overseas Ph.D. Degrees: A Bioecological Development Perspective. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 859240. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.859240

This study uses the bioecological model of human development to understand the academic career development of Chinese returnees with overseas Ph.D. degrees (CROPs). Focuses are placed on how CROPs engaged in this process through interactions with con... Read More about Academic Career Development of Chinese Returnees With Overseas Ph.D. Degrees: A Bioecological Development Perspective.

Men’s participation in early childhood education and care (ECEC): comparative perspectives from Edinburgh, Scotland and Tianjin, China (2022)
Journal Article
Xu, Y., Schweisfurth, M., & Read, B. (2022). Men’s participation in early childhood education and care (ECEC): comparative perspectives from Edinburgh, Scotland and Tianjin, China. Comparative Education, 58(3), 345-363. https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2022.2062950

At the global level, prominent narratives about improving the quality of early childhood education and care (ECEC) promote the recruitment of men into the profession. However, comparing across different policy and practice settings demonstrates contr... Read More about Men’s participation in early childhood education and care (ECEC): comparative perspectives from Edinburgh, Scotland and Tianjin, China.