Janette Ryan is Director of the UK Higher Education Academy's Teaching International Students project and a Research Associate at the China Centre, University of Oxford, UK. Her publications include China's Higher Education Reform and Internationalisation (also published by Routledge).

This book examines the extensive reforms at the early childhood, primary and secondary levels which have taken place in China in recent years, including those in curriculum goals, structure and content, teaching and learning approaches, and assessment and administrative structures.

Part I: Curriculum policy and practice 1. Reflection in action: Ongoing K-12 curriculum reform in China 2. Constructing a cross-cultural teacher Professional Learning Community in the context of China's basic education curriculum 3. Collaborative narration: Our story in a cross-cultural professional learning community Part II: Educational quality and access 4. Methods to evaluate educational quality and improvement in China 5. Education in the Tibetan Autonomous Region: Policies and Practices in Rural and Nomadic Communities Part III: Educational values and beliefs 6. The changing landscapes of a journey: Educational metaphors in China 7. English language teachers as moral guides in Vietnam and China: Maintaining and re-traditionalising morality 8. English language teachers as moral guides in Vietnam and China: Maintaining and re-traditionalising morality Part IV: Reform and internationalisation in the disciplines 8. Ten years of curriculum reform in China: A soft knowledge perspective 9. Multi-dimensional citizenship education reform: Is this the future trajectory for schools in China and Australia? Part V: Mutual learning and adaptation 10. Mutual learning and adaptation between China and the West through learning each other's language 11. Bridging the East and West dichotomy: Harmonising Eastern learning with Western knowledge