Revisiting The Chinese Learner - Changing Contexts, Changing Education (Hardcover, 2010 ed.)

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 such as: 1. The globalisation of education especially through educational technology, and enormous socio-economic changes, especially in China itself. 2. Changes in educational policy, aims, curriculum and organi- tion, and decentralisation of educational decision-making in many Confucian heritage cultures. 3.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	CERC Studies in Comparative Education, 25
Release date:	March 2010
First published:	2010
Editors:	Carol K. K. Chan • Nirmala Rao
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	360
Edition:	2010 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-90-481-3839-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching skills & techniques Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > Curriculum planning & development
LSN:	90-481-3839-6
Barcode:	9789048138395

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