This book examines how the two educational systems of China and the Nordic countries intersect. Over the past decade, there has been increased growth and interaction between China and the Nordic countries due to both government encouragement and academic curiosity. This book rejects a simplistic approach that presents both spaces as culturally uniform, confronting East and West entities, and suggests a comparative and contrastive approach that is critical and reflexive in both theory and methodology. This does not solely concentrate on difference, but emphasises similarities, including studies on philosophical, conceptual and methodological issues. This nuanced edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of Nordic and Chinese education as well as globalisation and interculturality.
Chapter
1. Introduction; Fred Dervin, Haiqin Liu, Xiangyun Du.- PART I.
Experiencing each other's emotion.
Chapter
2. The role of the migration
industry in Chinese student migration to Finland: Towards a new meso-level
approach; Hanwei Li.
Chapter
3. Chinese university leaders' perceptions of
effective transnational professional development; Xin Xing.
Chapter
4.
Narrative inquiry of beginner teachers' experience and changes in beliefs in
the Danish secondary school context; Li Wang.- PART II. Nordic-Chinese
intersections: Conceptual and methodological aspects.
Chapter
5. Beyond
comparative methods in research on transnational education cooperation: A
proposed theoretical model for examining contextual complexities; Jin Hui
Li.
Chapter
6. Lutheranism and Confucianism between national education and
globalization: A theoretical discussion; Mette Buchardt and Xiangyun Du.-
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7. 21st century competencies in the Chinese science curriculum; Yan
Wang, Jari Lavonen and Kirsi Tirri.-Chapter
8. Policy intersections on
education for the gifted and talented in China and Denmark; Annette
Rasmussen.- PART III. Transnational cooperation in education: Policies and
practices.
Chapter 9: Comparing doctoral education in China and Finland: An
institutional logics perspective; Gaoming Zheng, Wenqin Shen, Jussi Kivistö
and Yuzhuo Cai.
Chapter
10. Experience of Sino-Finnish joint degree
provision: practitioners' perspectives; Yuzhuo Cai, Baocun Liu and Chujun
Xiao.
Chapter
11. Contemporary Danish strategies of internationalisation
through student mobility with China: The development of instrumentality in
interculturality; Niels Erik Lyngdorf.
Chapter
12. Educational patriotism
inspired by China; Arild Tjeldvoll.
Chapter
13. Conclusion: Comparing
Chinese and Nordic education systems: some advice
Haiqin Liu is Researcher at the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her research interests include multilingual education, interculturality and international teacher education. Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He specializes in intercultural education, the sociology of multiculturalism and academic mobility. Xiangyun Du is Professor at the College of Education, Qatar University, Qatar, and Aalborg UNESCO Centre for Problem Based Learning in Engineering Science and Sustainability, Aalborg University, Denmark. Her main research interests include pedagogical development, particularly problem-based and project-based learning methods.
