Linking Competence to Opportunities to Learn - Models of Competence and Data Mining (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)

For many people, a high standard for student learning is desirable. This is what underlies current standard-based science education reforms around the world. As someone who was born and brought up in a less-privileged home and educated in a resource-limited school environment in a developing country, I always had to study hard to meet various standards from elementary to high school to univ- sity. My first book in English published over 10 years ago (Liu, X. [1996]. Mathematics and Science Curriculum Change in the People's Republic of China. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press) provided me an opportunity to examine standards (i. e. , Chinese national science teaching syllabi) from a historical and political point of view. I argued that standards are developed for particular poli- cal agendas in order to maintain the privileged position of certain groups (i. e. , urban residents) in a society at expenses of others (i. e. , rural residents). Thus, underneath standards is systematic discrimination and injustice. Since then, I have had opportunities to study the issue of standards in much more breadth and depth. This book, Linking Competence to Opportunities to Learn: Models of Competence and data mining, provides me an opportunity to examine standards from a different perspective: opportunity to learn.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Innovations in Science Education and Technology, 17
Release date:	May 2009
First published:	2009
Authors:	Xiufeng Liu
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	140
Edition:	2009 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4020-9910-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching skills & techniques Promotions
LSN:	1-4020-9910-X
Barcode:	9781402099106

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