Educational research in the global north and south; reflections on the field and future directions
(2024)
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Hoskins, K., Wong, B., Mckenzie, A., Xu, Y., Cheng, M., & Read, B. (2024). Educational research in the global north and south; reflections on the field and future directions. British Educational Research Journal, 50(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3978
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The manifestations of universality and cultural specificity in national curriculum policy frameworks: negotiations for culturally reflective practice in early childhood education (2023)
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Xu, Y., Brooks, C., Gao, J., & Kitto, E. (2023). The manifestations of universality and cultural specificity in national curriculum policy frameworks: negotiations for culturally reflective practice in early childhood education. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2023.2267594This paper presents findings from a review of 19 national curriculum policy frameworks (NCPFs) across the globe and discusses dominant and culturally specific discourses that shape early childhood education (ECE). We combine two frameworks of develop... Read More about The manifestations of universality and cultural specificity in national curriculum policy frameworks: negotiations for culturally reflective practice in early childhood education.
(Re)Constructing equality, diversity, and inclusion in Chinese childhoods: Intersectional perspectives and transdisciplinary approaches (2023)
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Zhu, Y., Wang, Y., Xu, Y., & Tan, R. (2023). (Re)Constructing equality, diversity, and inclusion in Chinese childhoods: Intersectional perspectives and transdisciplinary approaches. Global Studies of Childhood, 13(2), 95-101. https://doi.org/10.1177/20436106231178008
Understanding secondary school students' agentic negotiation strategies in accessing higher education in Cameroon (2023)
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Zhao, T., Xu, Y., Yu, Y., & Liu, Z. (2023). Understanding secondary school students' agentic negotiation strategies in accessing higher education in Cameroon. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2023.2179870This article investigates students’ post-secondary education transition processes in Cameroon through the lens of agency. Situated in a country where the higher education participation rate is fairly low, our article explores how students agentically... Read More about Understanding secondary school students' agentic negotiation strategies in accessing higher education in Cameroon.
When the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child meets Confucianism: Chinese parents' understanding of children’s right to play (2023)
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Liu, C., & Xu, Y. (2023). When the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child meets Confucianism: Chinese parents' understanding of children’s right to play. Childhood, 30(2), 177–193. https://doi.org/10.1177/09075682231151848This study employs a poststructuralist theoretical framework to explore parents’ attitudes towards children’s right to play in Shanghai, China. It adopted mixed methods of online questionnaires (N = 880) and semi-structured interviews (N = 11). The f... Read More about When the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child meets Confucianism: Chinese parents' understanding of children’s right to play.
Me, my child and Covid-19: Parents' reflections on their child's experiences of lockdown in the UK and China (2023)
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Hoskins, K., Thu, T., Xu, Y., Gao, J., & Zhai, J. (2023). Me, my child and Covid-19: Parents' reflections on their child's experiences of lockdown in the UK and China. British Educational Research Journal, 49(3), 455-475. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3850Over the past 2 years, the world has been living through the unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic. Children have had to adapt to online classrooms and lessons of some sort, and many parents have been forced to work from home while supervising their child'... Read More about Me, my child and Covid-19: Parents' reflections on their child's experiences of lockdown in the UK and China.
Participation or eschewal? Final-year secondary school students’ attitudes towards participation in higher education in Cameroon (2022)
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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.v42n4a2126In 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.
Children and young people's perspectives on and experiences of COVID-19 in global contexts (2022)
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Hoskins, K., Xu, Y., Gao, J., & Zhai, J. (2023). Children and young people's perspectives on and experiences of COVID-19 in global contexts. Children & Society, 37(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12664This special issue was proposed by Children & Society editors specifically for the journal's strategic aims to enhance its internationalisation; and to embrace children's perspectives and experiences in producing knowledge about childhoods in challen... Read More about Children and young people's perspectives on and experiences of COVID-19 in global contexts.
Men times ten: does the presence of more men support inclusion of male educators in early childhood education and care? (2022)
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Sullivan, V., Coles, L., Xu, Y., & Thorpe, K. (2023). Men times ten: does the presence of more men support inclusion of male educators in early childhood education and care?. Gender and Education, 35(1), 18-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2022.2137106Retention rates for men in early childhood education and care (ECEC) are low. Exit is associated with experience of feeling ‘other’ perpetuated by judgements of men’s sexuality, motives, and ability. In this paper, we take the unique circumstance of... Read More about Men times ten: does the presence of more men support inclusion of male educators in early childhood education and care?.
Men in early childhood education and care: on navigating a gendered terrain (2022)
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Bhana, D., Moosa, S., Xu, Y., & Emilsen, K. (2022). Men in early childhood education and care: on navigating a gendered terrain. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 30(4), 543-556. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350293X.2022.2074070Globally, the underrepresentation of men in the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) workforce is ongoing and has been largely attributed to the construction of ECEC as ‘women’s work’. Men’s involvement in ECEC can help to deconstruct the femini... Read More about Men in early childhood education and care: on navigating a gendered terrain.
Academic Career Development of Chinese Returnees With Overseas Ph.D. Degrees: A Bioecological Development Perspective (2022)
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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.2022.859240This 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)
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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/10.1080/03050068.2022.2062950At 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.
Building a competent early childhood education and care workforce in the Asia-Pacific region (2022)
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Li, M., Moon, M., Xu, Y., & Oberhuemer, P. (2022). Building a competent early childhood education and care workforce in the Asia-Pacific region. Early Years, 42(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1080/09575146.2022.2039027
Infantographies (2021)
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Tesar, M., Guerrero, M. R., Anttila, E., Newberry, J., Hellman, A., Wall, J., …Arndt, S. (2021). Infantographies. Educational Philosophy and Theory, https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2021.2009341
Understanding international postgraduate students’ educational mobility to China: an ecological systematic perspective (2021)
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Yu, Y., Cheng, M., & Xu, Y. (2022). Understanding international postgraduate students’ educational mobility to China: an ecological systematic perspective. Higher Education Research and Development, 41(6), 2137-2153. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2021.1973383International educational mobility is often perceived as westward mobility for non-English speaking learners. This study explores an increasing trend of mobility from developed countries to mainland China from ecological systematic perspectives. Draw... Read More about Understanding international postgraduate students’ educational mobility to China: an ecological systematic perspective.
Promoting culturally sensitive teacher agency in Chinese kindergarten teachers: an integrated learning approach (2021)
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Gao, J., Xu, Y., Kitto, E., Bradford, H., & Brooks, C. (2022). Promoting culturally sensitive teacher agency in Chinese kindergarten teachers: an integrated learning approach. Early Years, 42(1), 55-70. https://doi.org/10.1080/09575146.2021.1901661As increasingly more Chinese kindergarten teachers attend continuing professional development (CPD) based on pedagogies of international early childhood education and care (ECEC), it is imperative to explore how to address the well-documented rhetori... Read More about Promoting culturally sensitive teacher agency in Chinese kindergarten teachers: an integrated learning approach.
Policy decoupling in strategic response to the double world-class project: evidence from elite universities in China (2021)
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Song, J., Chu, Z., & Xu, Y. (2021). Policy decoupling in strategic response to the double world-class project: evidence from elite universities in China. Higher Education, 82(2), 255-272. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-020-00642-yCreating world-class universities (WCUs) has recently become a significant policy and practice in higher education in China under the Double World-Class Project. However, some negative effects have encouraged decoupling from the policy goals. To iden... Read More about Policy decoupling in strategic response to the double world-class project: evidence from elite universities in China.
Parents and children during the COVID-19 quarantine process: Experiences from Turkey and China (2021)
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Toran, M., Sak, R., Xu, Y., ?ahin-Sak, ?. T., & Yu, Y. (2021). Parents and children during the COVID-19 quarantine process: Experiences from Turkey and China. Journal of Early Childhood Research, 19(1), 21-39. https://doi.org/10.1177/1476718x20977583This paper reports Turkish and Chinese parents’ experiences with their 3–6 year-old children during the COVID-19 quarantine process. Thirteen Turkish and 11 Chinese parents participated in a study that employed semi-structured interviews to examine p... Read More about Parents and children during the COVID-19 quarantine process: Experiences from Turkey and China.
Engaging diversities in a changing world: a statement from the new editors of Children & Society (2021)
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Berriman, L., Bhana, D., Crafter, S., Robb, M., & Xu, Y. (2021). Engaging diversities in a changing world: a statement from the new editors of Children & Society. Children & Society, 35(1), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12427
Beliefs and attributions: Insider accounts of men’s place in early childhood education and care (2020)
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Sullivan, V., Coles, L., Xu, Y., Perales, F., & Thorpe, K. (2020). Beliefs and attributions: Insider accounts of men’s place in early childhood education and care. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 21(2), 126-137. https://doi.org/10.1177/1463949120929462Theoretical perspectives, and a large body of empirical research examining sex-segregated occupations, identify the attitudinal barriers of the majority as pivotal for both workplace well-being and the retention of minorities. Globally, where more th... Read More about Beliefs and attributions: Insider accounts of men’s place in early childhood education and care.