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Linyan Ruan
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Biography

Linyan Ruan is a doctoral candidate at Beijing Normal University majoring in Educational Administration. Her research interests include teachers’ professional learning, knowledge and society, and sociology of education. 

Ms. Ruan is conducting her doctoral dissertation on novice teachers’ everyday knowledge from a sociology of education perspective, using qualitative research methods. She believes that only in this way could she construct a theoretical basis both for teachers professional learning and for self-development. 

From 2013~2015, Ms. Ruan worked as a teacher educator and research assistant studying teachers professional/career development and knowledge structure in the public Teachers Training Institute of Yangpu District in Shanghai. This experience motivated her toward  research combining practice and theory, which enabled her to gain a deeper understanding of teachers’ situations and agency. For one of her studies, she participated in a research project approved by China’s Ministry of Education as a key study - Probationer Teachers Standardized Training Support System: A Case Study in Shanghai.

Professor Richard Arum and Associate Professor Rossella Santagata are Ms. Ruan’s advisors and research colleagues in UCI’s School of Education. With a focus on the sociology of education and teachers professional development, the three are preparing a comparative study on novice teachers’ induction.

Ms. Ruan has been a school-based curriculum teacher on the philosophy of children to cultivate children’s curiosity, reasoning ability, and critical thinking. She is also a counselor on curriculum/culture development and a mentor teacher on teachers’ action research methods in basic education.
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