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Dr Yuwei Xu

@dryuweixu.bsky.social

Associate Professor in Early Childhood Education, University of Nottingham, UK|Sociology of Gender, Childhood & Education|England Rep., British Educational Research Association (BERA) https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/education/people/yuwei.xu

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Universality versus culturality in early childhood education (ECE): what are they and where are they located in the everyday practice of Chinese and English ECE? / Universalidad frente a culturalidad ... Criticisms on the dominance of ‘Western’ mores and values in shaping early childhood education (ECE) curriculum frameworks in Asian contexts have led to argumen...

Co-authored by @dryuweixu.bsky.social and University of Portsmouth colleagues, this is a self-study of their own intercultural experiences of Chinese and English early childhood education, and they challenge a deficit view on Chinese ECE in existing literature.
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23.10.2025 10:33 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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#UoNSoE's @dryuweixu.bsky.social, Kerryn Dixon and Fran Salvi, will be joining plenary discussions at the 4th International Conference on Early Childhood Care Education and Parenting being held in Indonesia later this month.
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18.07.2025 10:14 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The guest editorial team @uonsoe.bsky.social & Zhejiang Normal University invite contributions to a special issue on Teachers' Lived Experiences Teaching Autistic Students, to be published by Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice. Please kindly share to your networks. lnkd.in/ekG9JiAS

09.07.2025 21:26 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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If you're located in Malaysia and would like to find out more about studying with #UoNSoE, join @dryuweixu.bsky.social at the university's Future Students Centre on 31 July to discuss your professional development. #CPD

Details and registration: bit.ly/4l8fhMs

03.07.2025 13:53 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Call for abstracts on Gender, Sexuality and Education in Chinese Contexts, to be published by Gender and Education journal. Further details 👉🏼 think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

28.06.2025 07:32 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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We're delighted to interview our member @dryuweixu.bsky.social and his co-editors - David Brody, Kari Emilsen, and Laetitia Coles - about their edited collection -

Young Children’s Perspectives on Teacher Gender:

www.qmul.ac.uk/clpn/news-vi...

16.06.2025 09:00 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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GCRG is glad to welcome Dr. Carolyn Clarke to Nottingham. She will deliver a seminar on homework policies and practices in everyday family contexts; with Dr Rachel Lehner-Mear being discussant. Join us in person on 24th June or email GlobalChildhoods@nottingham.ac.uk if you want to attend online.

27.05.2025 11:30 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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You are warmly invited to join us in Nottingham to discuss internationalisation of higher education in challenging times; with an amazing line up of speakers 👇🏼 attendance is free with lunch provided. but please register for catering purpose: www.eventbrite.com/e/internatio... @m

22.05.2025 19:19 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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Very many congratulations to Xiao Zhang who successfully defended his thesis yesterday. He completed a #TRRPhD and was supervised by Jo Warin. Many thanks to the Examiners @beth-garrett.bsky.social and @dryuweixu.bsky.social. www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...

04.03.2025 09:00 — 👍 8    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Chinese and Turkish parents’ reflective parenting: accelerating shifts in contemporary parenting during pandemic contexts During the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly during periods of quarantine, parents and children were sometimes together in ways which contrasted their pre-pandemic life. This paper uses a reflective ...

New article co-authored by @dryuweixu.bsky.social
on reflective parenting practice by Chinese and Turkish parents, disrupting the normative “good parenting” discourse in both societies. doi.org/10.1080/1322...

28.04.2025 10:16 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Our final webinar series with childhood journal editors will feature Co-Editors of Childhood Journal journals.sagepub.com/home/CHD Please join us via Zoom 👇🏼& kindly share it with your childhood networks. Thank you!

15.01.2025 22:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Two exciting calls for abstracts, for the journal I co-edit. Please kindly share to your networks, thank you!

12.12.2024 17:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Last few days to submit an abstract to our special
Issue on “The State(s) of Gender, Young People and Education” - bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/hu...

26.11.2024 16:08 — 👍 10    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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BERA announces 2024 BERA Educational Research Book of the Year The BERA Educational Research Book of the Year award celebrates the publication of educational research and is awarded to a scholarly book on education deemed to be high quality, engaging and...

Massive thanks @beranews.bsky.social @martinmyers.bsky.social for this!!
www.bera.ac.uk/news/bera-an...

26.11.2024 21:53 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

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25.11.2024 00:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A wee collection of memories about British Educational Research Association (BERA)’s fifth decade. I am lucky having been part of this journey, from an international student to BERA’s current England Rep. and British Educational Research Journal co-editor. 👉🏼 www.bera.ac.uk/wp-content/u... #BERA

24.11.2024 23:59 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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📢PCS Special Issue Call for Abstracts🎉

“Pedagogical Innovations to Advance Digital Literacy and Virtual Identity“

⏰Abstract deadline: 20 January 2025

🔗 think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

21.11.2024 21:42 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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