Mr Rowan Michael   PhD Candidate, Casual Staff

	Biography

After beginning my career as a LOTE Chinese Teacher with Education Queensland I continued my teaching career at high schools in both China and Australia. I have also taught at Universities in China and am currently employed on a casual basis, lecturing and tutoring both Chinese language and Academic English at the University of Queensland.

After completion of my honours degree I continued research into Chinese education at the doctoral level. The title of my dissertation is "Developing Northwest China Through Distance Education: Government policy and foundation level practice". My current research interests include Chinese education, distance education in China, the Western Regions Development Program and Chinese Online Language teaching.

	Keywords
	Humanities: Culture, Humanities: Chinese Language/Literature, Education: Teacher Education, Education: Rural Education, Education: Minority Education, Education: Foreign Languages Education, Education: English as a Second Language, Education: English Education, Education: E-Learning, Education: Distance Learning, Education: Computer-Aided Instruction, Education: Comparative Education