Beijing Normal University           Lecturer, Associate Professor       (2008-Current)

No.171 High School                     History Teacher                             (1994-2001)

.Kan, W., Tierney, R.(2025) Advancing Chinese Education: Case study in a primary school in Beijing. Berlin: Routledge.

Li, J.L. (2021) Curriculum and Practice for Children’s Contextualized Learning. trans. by Kan, W. Berlin: Springer.

Journal Articles (English)

. Zhang, J.J. Huang, Y.C. Wu, F.T. Kan, W. Zhu, X.D.(2024) Scaling up online professional development through institution-initiated blended learning programs in higher education, The Internet and Higher Education, Vol. 65(April): 100988-100998 

Kan, W. (2022) Dialogue with Worldwide Literacy Classroom: From the Perspectives of Situated Learning Method in China, Journal of Literature and Art Studies, Vol. 12(12): 1265-1276 

Kan, W. (2022) Peer-English teachers Conceptions of Feedback on Learning Assessment: Case study on writing in IBDP English B HL Classrooms in Beijing, Asia Pacific Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 5(1): 59-79.

Tierney, R. Smith, H. G. Kan, W. (2021) Global Literacies Research Diversity: A Manifesto for Change, Journal of Literacy Research, 2021, 53(3): 294-312 

Tierney, R. J., & Kan, W. (2016) Knowledge mobilization within and across the People’s Republic of China and the United States: A cross-national study of internationalization of educational research. American Educational Research Journal December 2016, Vol. 53, No. 6, pp. 1759–1791.

Book Chapters (English)

Kan, W. Discovered and reconstructed: a perspective of Chinese children’s literature over the last 100 years, In: Tierney, R.J., Rizvi, F., Erkican, K. (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Education, vol. 10. Elsevier.

Kan, W. (2011). Students’ Experiences of Enquiry-based Learning: Chinese Student Voices on Changing Pedagogies. In C. Gerry& K. Warren (Eds), The Student voice handbook: bridging the academic/practitioner divide (pp. 409-417). London: Emerald.

Kan, W., & Tierney, R. J. (2017) Beyond western empiricism to global eclecticism in educational research. Paper presented at the World Educational Research Meeting, Hong Kong, December 1, 2017.

Kan, W., Xiang, R., & Tierney, R. J. (2017) Empirical literacy education research across space and time. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association meeting, San Antonio, April 28, 2017.

Tierney, R. J., Xiang, Ran, Kan, W. (2016) Western Epistemology and Global Literacy Research: A Decade of Literacy Research in the United States. Paper presented at the Literacy Research Association Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee. November 30, 2016.

Tierney, R. J. & Kan, Wei. (2015). The shaping of educational scholarship at a time of heightened globalization: turning the mirror on insularity, ignorance, arrogance and collusion. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Literacy Research Association, Carlsbad, California. December 2015.

Tierney, R. J., Kan Wei, Kang Changyun, Li Xiaoqi, Liu Jia, Xi Shuang, Li Jiangyuan (2015) Exploring the case for shifting imperatives in Chinese English Language teaching & learning practices for literacy development. Keynote presentation, The First National Symposium on Reading in Schools, September 18, 2015, Peking University.

Tierney, R. J. & Kan, Wei. (2014). Confronting global knowledges: Chinese and US educational researchers in the 21st century. Paper presented at World Educational Research Association, Edinburgh, Scotland, November 21, 2014.