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Abstract
Since the 1980s, dozens of Chinese government documents on teacher education reform have been published. These documents have influenced the direction of teacher education change in China and will continue to do so in the years ahead. The first wave of documents focused on recovering the teacher education system. A second wave centered on building a mechanism of quality assurance for teaching as a profession. A third wave concentrated on raising the quality of teacher education. This paper summarizes the implementation of these documents and comments on the benefits and challenges of the major components of the three waves of reform as they relate to teacher education.
Acknowledgements
Work on this paper was supported by one of the Key Projects on Humanities and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China, ‘The Theory and Practice in the Innovation of Teacher Educational System’ (02JAZD88005).
Notes
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