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Higher Education as a Common Good in China: A Case Study for Ideas and Practices

Higher Learning Research Communications, 2016
China began its modern system of higher education with the establishment of the former Peking University in Beijing in 1898. The traditional Confucian philosophy of education has been replaced dramatically by modern western philosophy. However, since the
Jiangang Zhu
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Young children's right to be heard on the quality of their education: Addressing potential misunderstandings in the context of early childhood education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In early childhood education many researchers and professionals across the world have embraced the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child's requirement to include young children in decision‐making. In the context of ongoing discussion about young children's capacity to share their views and opinions about matters affecting them ...
Laura Lundy, Colette Murray, Kylie Smith, Carmel Ward   +3 more
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Introduction

Asian Studies
This special issue of Asian Studies is dedicated to a relocation of Chinese thought outside of closed definitions and disciplines so as to return to this rich and varied tradition to its authentic, inclusive power. The introduction of Western systems of
Selusi Ambrogio
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String Figuring young children's perspectives of quality in English early childhood education and care

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a contested concept and has generally been conceptualised by inter‐related indicators such as staff qualifications, educational environment, policy or child‐to‐staff ratios. There has been a more limited emphasis on how young children might perceive and experience quality.
Nikki Fairchild, Éva Mikuska
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The Recent Engagement between Analytic Philosophy and Heideggerian Thought: Metaphysics and Mind [PDF]

, 2016
Martin Heidegger is a towering figure in the history of continental philosophy, but his work has recently been brought into productive engagement with analytic philosophy.
Casati, Filippo, Wheeler, Michael
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Listening to Hong Kong children's perspectives through pretend play

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) has become an increasing concern in recent years. The issue has been regularly discussed by different stakeholders. However, the rising concern regarding quality in ECEC has not seriously taken into account children's perspectives.
Suzannie K. Y. Leung
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Fine-Tuning and the Scope of Physical Laws

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Fine-tuning arguments claim that the precise parameter values and initial conditions required for complexity and life are extraordinarily improbable and demand explanation. This article examines whether such probability claims can be grounded in physics.
Chris Smeenk
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International student agency in academic self‐formation: Mobility as agency situated within knowledge structures

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract With growing attention to student agency in academic and policy discourse, international education has become a prominent context for examining how students navigate new cultural, academic, linguistic and social environments. However, much of this discussion attributes student agency to the ‘international’ aspect, while overlooking the ...
Soyoung Lee
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Reconceptualising ‘agency in mobility’: Agency for becoming and other forms of agency in study abroad

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Study‐abroad programs are increasingly adopted and supported by institutions and governments as a strategic tool for deepening internationalisation and public diplomacy through people‐to‐people, institution‐to‐institution and country‐to‐country connections.
Ly Thi Tran, Thinh Huynh
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Life as an ethnic minority (EM) university student: Comparing mental health challenges among local and international EM students in Hong Kong

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract University students globally face growing mental health challenges, with ethnic minority (EM) students—both local and international—being particularly vulnerable. Yet, limited research compares their experiences or identifies shared and distinct stressors, especially in non‐Western contexts.
Wang Xinyi, Naubahar Sharif
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