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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 Rachael Levy
Our purpose is to bring together 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 Rachael Levy - Director
- Yannan Yu - Centre Manager
- Dr Jie Gao - 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
- A Systematic Review of Parent-child Reading in Early Childhood (0-6): Effects, Factors, and Interventions
- (Re)constructing school readiness from Chinese young children's perspectives
- What kind of parenting promotes 0-3-year-olds' development? A review of research evidence in international and China-specific literature
- Parents and children during the COVID-19 quarantine process: Experiences from Turkey and China
- What Makes an Effective Early Childhood Parenting Programme: a Systematic Review of Reviews and Meta-analyses
- What Makes an Effective Early Childhood Parenting Programme: a Systematic Review of Reviews and Meta-analyses (Chinese version)
- Early Childhood Education in People's Republic of China: A Literature Review of the publications written in English
- Rapid Evidence Assessment on Quality Issues in Early Years Education in China
- Understanding Assessment in Early Childhood Education in China
- From Global to Local: How Can International 0-3 Curriculum Frameworks Inform the Development of 0-3 Care and Education Guidelines in China?
- From Global to Local: How Can International 0-3 Curriculum Frameworks Inform the Development of 0-3 Care and Education Guidelines in China? (Chinese version)
Blog posts
- New study: empowering teachers, children and parents is the way to achieve the best early childhood education and care - Dr Yuwei Xu, Dr Clare Brooks, Dr Jie Gao and Dr Eleanor Kitto
- Supporting parents through online programmes: now and into the future - Dr Jie Gao, Dr Clare Brooks, Dr Yuwei Xu, Dr Eleanor Kitto
- What should teachers be prepared for when young children return after lockdown: lessons from China and elsewhere - Dr Yuwei Xu, Dr Clare Brooks
- Educating young children at home: key lessons from research - Dr Clare Brooks, Dr Eleanor Kitto, Carole Scott
- Education in quarantine: what can we learn from early childhood educators in China? - Dr Jie Gao, Dr Clare Brooks
Mind the gap: will home learning reinforce inequality and what can we do about it? - Dr Clare Brooks, Dr Eleanor Kitto, Carole Scott
- Research seminars
CTEY hosted two virtual research receptions in early 2021 for UCL and external audiences. We introduced our centre, current projects, and opportunities of collaborating with us:
- CTEY virtual research reception, 4 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