Table Of ContentEducation for International
Understanding in China
While identifying the essential feature of education for international under-
standing advocated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cul-
tural Organization ( UNESCO), the book explores how Chinese schools have
implemented education for international understanding since the 1980s.
Through vivid cases, the author introduces the practice of education for
international understanding in Chinese primary and middle schools. Based
on the questionnaire survey, she analyzes the international understanding
competence of Chinese students and teachers. Furthermore, she discusses
the current dilemma and proposes possible solutions for Chinese education
for international understanding in the future.
While providing a window to China’s contemporary education for the
international community, the book can also be used as a reference for edu-
cational policymakers, educational researchers and primary and secondary
schoolteachers in other countries.
Rong Zhang is Professor at School of Education Science, Nanjing Normal
University. She has focused on comparative and international education, es-
pecially on globalization and school reform, and education for international
understanding.
Education for International
Understanding in China
Rong Zhang
First published 2023
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ISBN: 978- 1- 032- 34158- 3 ( hbk)
ISBN: 9 78-1 -0 32-3 4159-0 (p bk)
ISBN: 9 78-1 -0 03-3 2078- 4 ( ebk)
DOI: 10.4324/9 781003320784
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Contents
List of figures vii
List of tables ix
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
1 The development and essential feature of education for
international understanding 1
2 The development of education for international
understanding in China’s schools 17
3 The implementation of education for international
understanding in China 32
4 Chinese students’ international understanding competences 70
5 Chinese teachers’ international understanding competences 98
6 The dilemma of and solution to Chinese education for
international understanding 122
Bibliography 139
Index 141
Figures
3.1 The Series reader of education for international
understanding of Baoan district, Shenzhen. Photograph by
the author 48
3.2 The textbook “ Education for International Understanding”
compiled by Futian district of Shenzhen city. Photograph
by the author 52
3.3 The textbook “ Education for International Understanding”
compiled by the Education Bureau of Pudong New Area in
Shanghai. Photograph by the author 54
3.4 The textbook “ Starting from China” compiled by Nanjing
Lasa Road Primary School. Photograph by the author 60
Tables
3.1 English Curriculum Standards for Compulsory Education
(2 022 edition)— the content requirements of cultural knowledge 37
3.2 The content requirements of education for international
understanding in the morality and rule-of-law curriculum
standards for grades 7–9 38
3.3 History Curriculum Standards for Compulsory Education
(2 022 edition)—w orld history 40
3.4 The content requirements of education for international
understanding in Chinese Curriculum Standards for
Ordinary Senior High schools 43
3.5 The content of the textbook of education for international
understanding in Baoan district of Shenzhen city 50
3.6 The content of the textbook of education for international
understanding ( primary school) in Futian district of
Shenzhen City 52
3.7 The content of the textbook of education for international
understanding ( junior high school) in Futian district of
Shenzhen City 53
3.8 The content of the textbook of education for international
understanding ( senior high school) in Futian district of
Shenzhen City 53
3.9 The content of the textbook of education for international
understanding ( grades 6 – 8) in Pudong New Area in
Shanghai 55
3.10 The content of the textbook of education for international
understanding ( grades 1 0– 11) in Pudong New Area in
Shanghai 56
3.11 The objectives of the school- b ased curriculum in education
for international understanding in primary school
attached to Northeast Normal University 57
3.12 The content of the school- based curriculum in education
for international understanding in primary school
attached to Northeast Normal University 58
