Revisiting The Chinese Learner Changing Contexts, Changing Education

Revisiting The Chinese Learner Changing Contexts, Changing Education / edited by Carol K.K. Chan, Nirmala Rao.

This book examines teaching and learning in Chinese societies and advances understanding of ‘the Chinese learner’ in changing global contexts. Given the burgeoning research in this area, pedagogical shifts from knowledge transmission to knowledge construction to knowledge creation, wide-ranging soci...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Chan, Carol K.K (Editor), Rao, Nirmala (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Edition:1st ed. 2010.
Series:CERC Studies in Comparative Education ; 25
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Curriculums (Courses of study).
Education—Curricula.
Educational policy.
Education and state.
Learning.
Instruction.
International education .
Comparative education.
Educational sociology.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • Moving Beyond Paradoxes: Understanding Chinese Learners and Their Teachers
  • STUDENT BELIEFS AND APPROACHES TO LEARNING
  • Learning to Self-Perfect: Chinese Beliefs about Learning
  • Motivation and Competition in Hong Kong Secondary Schools: The Students#x2019; Perspective
  • New Experiences, New Epistemology, and the Pressures of Change: The Chinese Learner in Transition
  • TEACHER BELIEFS, CHANGING PEDAGOGY AND TEACHER LEARNING
  • The Chinese Learner of Tomorrow
  • Classroom Innovation for the Chinese Learner: Transcending Dichotomies and Transforming Pedagogy
  • Teaching Mathematics: Observations from Urban and Rural Schools in Mainland China
  • Teaching English to Chinese-Speaking Children
  • Preschool Pedagogy: A Fusion of Traditional Chinese Beliefs and Contemporary Notions of Appropriate Practice
  • In Search of a Third Space: Teacher Development in Mainland China
  • CONCLUSION
  • The Paradoxes Revisited: The Chinese Learner in Changing Educational Contexts.

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