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Author: Zitong Wei Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9811326916 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 194
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This book provides a refreshing look at kindergarten teachers’ practical knowledge and their context-specific reasoning of the usefulness of constructivism from a culturally emic perspective. Examining the similarities and differences between constructivism and Confucianism from both instructional and moral perspectives, it provides a unique contribution to teaching and teacher education. An understanding of the compatibility between constructivism and Confucianism is valuable in cross-cultural exchange and learning, and as such the book is a great source for educational researchers in a time of globalization.
Author: Zitong Wei Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9789811326905 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 194
Book Description
This book provides a refreshing look at kindergarten teachers’ practical knowledge and their context-specific reasoning of the usefulness of constructivism from a culturally emic perspective. Examining the similarities and differences between constructivism and Confucianism from both instructional and moral perspectives, it provides a unique contribution to teaching and teacher education. An understanding of the compatibility between constructivism and Confucianism is valuable in cross-cultural exchange and learning, and as such the book is a great source for educational researchers in a time of globalization.
Author: Zitong Wei Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9811326916 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 194
Book Description
This book provides a refreshing look at kindergarten teachers’ practical knowledge and their context-specific reasoning of the usefulness of constructivism from a culturally emic perspective. Examining the similarities and differences between constructivism and Confucianism from both instructional and moral perspectives, it provides a unique contribution to teaching and teacher education. An understanding of the compatibility between constructivism and Confucianism is valuable in cross-cultural exchange and learning, and as such the book is a great source for educational researchers in a time of globalization.
Author: Shihkuan Hsu Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9812872248 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 286
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Given the increasing global interest in Chinese culture, this book uses case studies to describe and interpret Chinese cultivation in contemporary Taiwanese schools. Cultivation is a concept unique to Chinese culture and is characterized by different attitudes towards teaching and learning compared to Western models of education. The book starts with a discussion of human nature in Chinese schools of philosophy and levels of goodness. Following the philosophical background is a presentation of how cultivation is practiced in Chinese culture from prenatal through high school education. The case studies focus both on how students are cultivated as they become members of Chinese society, and on what role teachers play in cultivating the children in school. In addition, supports from Chinese educational institutions, including public schools, families, and organizations such as private cram schools, are introduced and explained. In closing, the book presents a critique of the modern school reform movement and the conflicts between the reform proposals and traditional practices. Based on the collective work of Taiwanese researchers in the fields of education, history and anthropology, the book identifies the purpose of education as cultivating virtue in a process of creating an ideal person who serves society, and describes the way teachers have carried on this tradition despite its faltering status in contemporary educational discourse and in the face of reform movements.
Author: Xudong Zhu Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 9811518270 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 134
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This book comprehensively examines classroom culture in the Chinese context and develops the model of “collective-individualism-based learning.” Classroom culture plays a fundamental role in constructing students’ learning competencies, perceptions, and behaviors. This book puts forward a collective-individualism-based learning model to explain the classroom culture in China, both past and present. The collective-individualism-based model reflects the individualized learning style of students in Chinese classroom culture, and is characterized by nine symbolic objects; a textbook, an exercise book, a pen, a blackboard, a screen, a computer, a table, a chair, and a platform. In addition to summarizing this approach to learning, the book examines the construction of a classroom culture with Chinese characteristics and argues that the collective-individualism-based model accurately portrays the personal learning style of students in a specific classroom culture that includes particular symbolic objects.
Author: Guoping Zhao Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317595297 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 235
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Maintaining education as a pedagogical space for human formation, this book is distinctive in looking at the crisis rather than the success of Chinese education. The editors and contributors, mostly overseas and mainland Chinese scholars, argue that modern Chinese education has been built upon a superficial and instrumental embrace of Western modernity and a fragmented appropriation of Chinese cultural heritage. They call for a rethinking and re-envisioning of Chinese education, grounded in and enriched by various cultural traditions and cross-cultural dialogues. Drawing on Chinese history and culture, Western and Chinese philosophies, curriculum and pedagogical theories, the collected volume analyzes (1) why education as person-making has failed to take root in contemporary China, (2) how the purpose of education has changed during the process of China’s modernization, and (3) what a rediscovery of the meaning of person-making implies for rethinking and re-envisioning Chinese education in the current age of globalization and social change. Re-envisioning Chinese Education: The meaning of person-making in a new age discusses among other issues: China’s Historical Encounter with the West and Modern Chinese Education Rediscover Lasting Values: Confucian Cultural Learning Models in the Twenty-first Century Rethinking and Re-envisioning Chinese Didactics: Implications from the German Didaktik Tradition The New Basic Education and the Development of Human Subjectivity: A Chinese Experience This book will be relevant for scholars, researchers, and policy makers everywhere who seek a more balanced, more sophisticated, and philosophically better grounded understanding of Chinese education.
Author: Shane N. Phillipson Publisher: ISBN: 9789888083428 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book provides an essential starting point for understanding the contexts of learning and teaching in the Chinese classroom. Drawing upon recent research in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and China, the book will bridges the gap between traditional texts on educational psychology and the unique nature of the Chinese learner and their teacher.
Author: Linjing He Publisher: ISBN: Category : Constructivism (Education) Languages : en Pages : 220
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Beliefs that teachers hold about teaching and learning are very important because they directly impact on students’ learning. Nowadays, constructivist learning theory (CLT) is an advocated theory of learning that underpins many teachers’ pedagogy. It focuses on a student-centred teaching approach. However, China has been using a traditional teacher-centred teaching approach for many years. This research aimed to explore beliefs that Chinese junior secondary school teachers hold about Year 7-9 students’ learning from a constructivist perspective and their effects on teachers’ decisions. It also explored their beliefs about the importance of students’ ability or effort in their teaching. An interpretive-qualitative design was used. Convenience and purposive sampling procedures were employed. Ten teachers with five or more years’ teaching experience who taught different subjects took part in this study. Two types of data were generated through concept maps and individual semi-structured interviews. First, the participating teachers were asked to construct a diagram representing the components and elements of their beliefs about students’ learning. Then the teachers participated individually in a semi-structured interview lasting approximately 60 minutes. Thematic analysis was used to analyse data. Findings of this study showed that although only one teacher could identify what CLT was, all of these teachers unconsciously implemented CLT components in their teaching because they believed that a student-centred teaching approach was important and that students should play active roles in their learning, which are principles of CLT. Most of these teachers believed students’ effort was more important than their ability. This belief reflected an incremental theory of the relationship between effort and ability. However, these teachers also believed they could not always implement their beliefs in their teaching resulting in a teacher-centred teaching and students being passive receivers. The reasons given for this tension between their beliefs and implementation were identified as barriers they encountered which included time constraints, pressures on students and negative effects of examination-oriented system.
Author: Hsu-Pai Wu Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 446
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This multiple-case study investigated six teachers' perspectives on their teaching practices and cultural integration in a Chinese heritage language school. This research also explored how the teachers' instructional practices were linked to Ladson-Billings' theories on culturally relevant pedagogy (1994). Qualitative in nature, multiple data sources were included, such as semi-structured interviews, classroom observations, and teachers' artifacts. Data analysis included both within- and cross-case analysis. Within-case analysis showed that each teacher had her particular method of fostering students' language learning. They also had unique ways of teaching Chinese culture; one held that culture is embedded in literature, another held that culture is the daily life of a group of people, another held that culture is gained through reading, a fourth held that culture is transmitted from one generation to the next, another held that culture is analyzed in relation to other cultures, and, finally, one teacher perceived that culture is hybrid and multifaceted. Based on the central tenets of culturally relevant pedagogy, four themes emerged from the cross-case analysis: (a) motivational and skill-building strategies to promote academic success, (b) individual, plural, and progressive ways to integrate and reconceptualize Chinese culture, (c) rebalancing authority to share power with students, and (d) culture identity development to enhance self-empowerment. Despite the link between the current study and Ladson-Billings' theory, differences were found. For example, the Chinese teachers viewed heritage language learning as a way to help students connect their family members rather than to become active agents in the larger society. Besides cultural facts, the teachers incorporated cultural virtues and cultural reconceptualization. Instead of focusing on questioning inequities, the teachers encouraged students to build harmonious relationship with other ethnic groups. As the existing studies emphasized minority education for Mexican and African American students, the present study shed new light on language and culture instruction for Chinese Americans. This study suggests four implications: (a) developing heritage language teachers' professional knowledge about implementing a "student-centered" approach, (b) enhancing heritage language teachers' critical cultural awareness, (c) investigating heritage language teaching from diverse sociocultural backgrounds, and (d) introducing the theory of culturally relevant pedagogy in heritage language education.
Author: Zitong Wei
Author: Zitong Wei
Author: Zitong Wei
Author: Zitong Wei
Author: Shihkuan Hsu
Author: Xudong Zhu
Author: Guoping Zhao
Author: Shane N. Phillipson
Author: Linjing He
Author: Lingqi Meng
Author: Hsu-Pai Wu