Working in partnership to improve quality in early years teacher education in China. An opportunity to transform education for 170 million children and their families.
Director: Dr
Our purpose is to bringÌýtogether academics, teacher educators and practitioners from IOE and across China, in order to generate effective and sustainable change in Chinese early years practice.
The centre's focus
- Genuine partnership: a collaboration between academics and teacher educators and practitioners
- Research-informed change and development
- Sustainability and scalability by developing local systems, structures, programmes and practice as well as by aggregating findings and insights gained over time
- Innovation and change that is focused on pedagogy of practice-based learning
- Capacity building
About us
- Team
- Dr Ìý- Director
- - Centre Manager
- ¶Ù°ùÌý - Research Fellow
Our activities
- Research
Research areas
- Teacher education and leadership for the early years in China
- Quality in early years education
- The role of the family in early years education
- Early literacy development
- Publications
Blog posts
- - ¶Ù°ùÌýYuwei Xu, Dr Clare Brooks, Dr Jie Gao and Dr Eleanor Kitto
- -ÌýDr Jie Gao, Dr Clare Brooks, Dr Yuwei Xu, Dr Eleanor Kitto
- -Ìý Dr Yuwei Xu, Dr Clare Brooks
- Ìý- Dr Clare Brooks, Dr Eleanor Kitto, Carole Scott
- Ìý- Dr Jie Gao, Dr Clare Brooks
Ìý- Dr Clare Brooks, Dr Eleanor Kitto, Carole Scott
- Research seminars
CTEY hosted two virtual research receptions in early 2021 for ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº and external audiences. We introduced our centre, current projects, and opportunities of collaborating with us:
- CTEY virtual research reception,Ìý4 February 2021
Previous research seminars
- Research with young children in China: Opportunities and challenges, 11 November 2022
- Thinking about children’s rights in the early years, 16 August 2022
- The application of pedagogy of play in early childhood education, 22 June 2022
- Gender play in early childhood education, 12 May 2022
- The Mosaic approach and the pedagogy of listening: Implications for transition, 13 April 2022
- Contesting neoliberalism in global early childhood education, 21 June 2021
- Changing landscapes of fatherhood in global contexts, 22 March 2021
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