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Chuing Prudence Chou (©P¯¬·ë) is a former visiting scholar at the Fairbank Center, Harvard University, on a Fulbright Fellowship, 2006-07. She received her PhD in Comparative and International Education from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is a professor in the Department of Education at National Cheng-Chi University, Taipei, Taiwan. Chou used to work as a youth guidance counsel in Taiwan and an international student and scholar volunteer at UCLA. She is now working in the fields of comparative higher education, special issues on education reform, and gender studies.
Chou has written and edited numerous books, articles, reports, and papers in Chinese and English. Her teaching efforts focus on comparative and international education, special education issues in the People¡¦s Republic of China, gender equity education, and other special topics pertaining to higher education. She has also served as an education reform advocate since late 1990s who plays an active role in critiquing/reviewing Taiwanese education reform of the 1990s and has published one book entitled ¡§The Great Experiment of Taiwanese Education: 1987-2003,¡¨ a well-known and widely citied publication in Taiwan. She has been visiting professor of University of Auckland (New Zealand), University of Toronto and British Columbia (Canada), East-West Center (Hawaii), Beijing Normal University, Ohio State University, and an Honorary Professor at the South Normal University in China. During her stay at the Fairbank Center, she conducted research within the broad context of American Doctoral training of the younger generation of China specialists and attempted to see how these experts interpret the role/impact of their US-based doctoral training on their later lives¡Xboth personally and socially.
Chou has currently working on a textbook of comparative education which covers education reform policies over eighteen countries ranging from the US, China, Germany, Israel, India, and South Africa.