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Dr YUWEI XU's Outputs (10)

Infantographies (2021)
Journal Article
Tesar, M., Guerrero, M. R., Anttila, E., Newberry, J., Hellman, A., Wall, J., Santiago-Saamong, C. R., Bodén, L., Yu, H., Nanakida, A., Diaz-Diaz, C., Xu, Y., Trnka, S., Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., Nxumalo, F., Millei, Z., Malone, K., & Arndt, S. (2021). Infantographies. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2021.2009341

Understanding international postgraduate students’ educational mobility to China: an ecological systematic perspective (2021)
Journal Article
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/10.1080/07294360.2021.1973383

International 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.

(Re)constructing school readiness from Chinese young children's perspectives: Interim Report (2021)
Report
(2021). (Re)constructing school readiness from Chinese young children's perspectives: Interim Report. London: UCL Centre for Teacher and Early Years Education

This interim report presents the ongoing progress of a collaborative project between the Centre for Teacher and Early Years Education (CTEY), UCL Institute of Education and the Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University (BNU), which aims to (re)... Read More about (Re)constructing school readiness from Chinese young children's perspectives: Interim Report.

(Re)constructing school readiness from Chinese young children's perspectives (2021)
Report
Gao, J., Li, M., XU, Y., Qin, S., Guo, W., Tian, Z., Lok, J., & Zeng, X. (2021). (Re)constructing school readiness from Chinese young children's perspectives. Centre for Teacher and Early Years Education, UCL Institute of Education

This interim report presents the ongoing progress of a collaborative project between the Centre for Teacher and Early Years Education (CTEY), UCL Institute of Education and the Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University (BNU), which aims to (re)... Read More about (Re)constructing school readiness from Chinese young children's perspectives.

Promoting culturally sensitive teacher agency in Chinese kindergarten teachers: an integrated learning approach (2021)
Journal Article
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/10.1080/09575146.2021.1901661

As 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)
Journal Article
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-y

Creating 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)
Journal Article
Toran, M., Sak, R., Xu, Y., Şahin-Sak, İ. 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/10.1177/1476718x20977583

This 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.