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Jian Li and Xudong Zhu serve as co-first author to contribute this book.
Jian Li is an assistant professor at the China Institute of Education and Social Development at Beijing Normal University. She received her Ph.D. degree from Indiana University Bloomington, USA. Dr. Li's general area of scholarship is the assessment of global competency and global learning within higher education institutions, an area in which she has pursued four themes: higher education policy and management; undergraduate students' global learning performance assessment; faculty global perspective within higher education; and global learning and development as a framework for institutional research. Dr. Li has published over 20 articles and book chapters, and delivered over 30 workshops and seminars and more than 10 keynote, peer-reviewed and invited presentations throughout the U.S. and in Europe, Africa,and Asia.
?Xudong Zhu is a professor at the Institute of Teacher Education and Dean of the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University. His work focuses on teacher education, comparative education and the history of education, with an emphasis on transforming the teacher education system in China, comparative studies on national development and education, and the history of ideas of education in the west. Much of his work has involved the policy and practice of teacher education and teacher professional development, aspects that he has researched in China, with the World Bank, UNESCO, Intel, etc. He is the Secretary of the National Expert Committee of Teacher Education of MOE in China, and Director of the Center for Teacher Education Research among the Key Research Institutes of Humanities and Social Sciences in University of MOE. He is also the Director of the Institute of Teacher Education at Beijing Normal University, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Teacher Education Research, China.
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