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.

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.