Teacher Competence for Early Career Teachers in China - The Distance Between Ivory Tower and Lectern

Examining the teacher education landscape in China, Xiaojing Yan focuses on how early career teachers (ECTs) build their competence during the initial years of teaching, challenges that come with teacher training and pathways to improve teacher competency.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. The interrelationships among teacher competence, teacher standards and teacher professional learning 3. Early career teachers' practice and their professional learning in the school 4. Qualitative constructivism with the case study 5. The trajectory of teacher competence in China 6. Challenges of early career teachers' development of teacher competence 7. The professional learning path for early career teachers improving their competence 8. Advancing early career teachers' competence

About the author

Xiaojing Yan is a lecturer at Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing, China, and holds a PhD in Education from Monash University, Australia. She has published extensively on Chinese early career teachers' competences and teacher standards. Her research interests are sociology of education, teacher education and rural education.

Product details

• Authors: Xiaojing Yan, Xiaojing (Capital University of Economics and Yan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2025
• EAN: 9781032755267
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3275526-7
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Education and Society in China
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; China, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, HISTORY / Asia / China, EDUCATION / Teacher & Student Mentoring, Politics & government, teacher training, Philosophy & theory of education, Educational strategies & policy, Politics and government, Philosophy and theory of education, Development Studies, Educational strategies and policy