书目名称 | Revisiting The Chinese Learner |
副标题 | Changing Contexts, C |
编辑 | Carol K.K. Chan,Nirmala Rao |
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概述 | Debunks stereotypes about Chinese teachers and learners.Advances our understanding of the changing Chinese learner.Considers traditional and contemporary influences on pedagogies.Considers the influen |
丛书名称 | CERC Studies in Comparative Education |
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描述 | It is seventeen years since I first formulated ‘The paradox of the Chinese learner’ in a conference in Kathmandu, Nepal. My original formulation of the paradox was that westerners saw Chinese students as rote learning massive amounts of information in fierce exam-dominated classrooms – yet in international comparisons, students in the Confucian heritage cla- rooms greatly outperformed western students learning in ‘progressive’ western classrooms. This seeming paradox raised all sorts of questions to which many others have contributed important answers, especially that by Ference Marton on how Chinese learners construed the roles of memory and understanding in ways that were foreign to typical western educators. Much of this work was brought together in The Chinese Learner (1996), edited by David Watkins and myself. That work raised more questions still, especially about educational contexts, beliefs and practices, which were investigated in contributions to Teaching the Chinese Learner (2001). And now we have Revisiting the Chinese Learner, which is a very timely collection of excellent contributions that take into account the many changes that have taken place since 2001, changes |
出版日期 | Book 2010 |
关键词 | Chinese learners; Chinese teachers; Confucian-heritage cultures; Educational Reform; Pedagogy; education; |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3840-1 |
isbn_ebook | 978-90-481-3840-1Series ISSN 1573-6040 Series E-ISSN 2543-022X |
issn_series | 1573-6040 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 |