Revisiting The Chinese Learner

Author : Carol K.K. Chan,Nirmala Rao
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789048138401

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Revisiting The Chinese Learner by Carol K.K. Chan,Nirmala Rao Pdf

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.

Author : Carol K. K. Chan,Nirmala Rao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 904813854X

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Author : David A. Watkins,John Burville Biggs
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015049487260

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The Chinese Learner by David A. Watkins,John Burville Biggs Pdf

Paints a clear, research-based picture of how Chinese students and their teachers see the context of their learning both in Hong Kong and abroad. The focus of much of this research is the question, How can Chinese learners be so successful academically'.

Author : Yingmei Luo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789811621529

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A New Representation of Chinese Learners by Yingmei Luo Pdf

This book examines Chinese tertiary students' experiences of learning English in Sino-Australian programs in China. Using an institutional ethnography, the book examines one well-established Sino-Australian program based at a Chinese university. The book explores the ways that participant students used the Chinese words, tropes and their meanings to describe their English learning experiences with both local Chinese and foreign English teachers. This book introduces an innovative theoretical framework, “representation theory with a multilingual perspective”, to analyse how Chinese students' everyday experiences are constructed and mediated through language, discourse and identity. This framework also highlights graphic examples of how concepts are created in both Chinese and English, and thus serves as a powerful tool for deconstructing dichotomies between China and the West. The aim of this book is, then, two-fold: to show how a novel theoretical lens can help us to develop more nuanced understandings of Chinese students, and to propose a new methodological and theoretical framework through which one can challenge the monolingual subjectivity and parochial views of both Chinese and Western conceptions.

Author : Yu Haibo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000384345

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Organizational Learning in China by Yu Haibo Pdf

From the perspective of behavioural science, this book systematically investigates organizational learning in Chinese organizations based on multilevel theory over the past 20 years. The findings contribute to the theory and practice of organizational learning and give insights into the construction of learning organizations. Revisiting existing studies on organizational learning, the author reconceptualises organizational learning and constructs an integrative model, which is corroborated and then supplemented by empirical research. Based on samples and materials from 3,000 managers and employees in organizations from all over China, the book further elaborates this integrative model covering the multilevel structure, trans-level functions and generative mechanisms that figure prominently in organizational learning in Chinese organizations. This framework helps enhance the organizational learning ability and the establishment of a learning culture, while offering possible directions for updating research methods and a stereoscopic theory of organizational learning. The book will be a good reference for management practitioners, students and academics interested in organizational behaviour, human resource management, innovation management, and multilevel perspective.

Author : Janette Ryan,Gordon Slethaug
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789888028450

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International Education and the Chinese Learner by Janette Ryan,Gordon Slethaug Pdf

International Education and the Chinese Learner is one of the first full-length studies in the relatively new field of transnational pedagogy to explore the role of the Chinese learner in international schools and universities across the globe. It describes the unprecedented growth of international schools and university exchange programs during the past decade together with the way in which Chinese learners at all levels have taken advantage of these opportunities and have been scrutinized in the process. The results of this internationalization have in some cases solidified stereotypes about Chinese learners and in other instances have helped to overcome those prejudices. Teachers within the international schools comment about the challenges of integrating students from different ethnic and national backgrounds in their schools and about the rewards of developing intercultural programs that will give the students the most substantial, diverse, and ethical education and encourage cross-cultural understanding, build academic skills, and develop character. University teachers ù both Chinese and Western ù describe the opportunities and challenges for cross-cultural teaching and learning within the classrooms of their own countries and in global classrooms where local and international teachers together advance new perspectives based on team teaching, interdisciplinarity, and intercultural enquiry. Teachers within international schools and university and school teachers who teach exchange students and other international students will find the understanding, experiences, and practical advice to be of help in their own teaching, but those within international business communities may well find the research helpful in understanding their own intercultural environments. Janette Ryan is a lecturer in education at Monash University. She specializes in cross-cultural teaching and teaching for international students. She is a Mandarin Chinese speaker and works with a network of schools and universities across China on curriculum reform and professional learning communities. Gordon Slethaug is a visiting professor in English studies and communications at the University of Southern Denmark and has previously been professor of English at the University of Waterloo, Canada and director of American Studies at the University of Hong Kong. He has recently been visiting Lingnan professor at the University of Hong Kong and Sun Yat-sen University in China and senior Fulbright professor at the University of Southern Denmark.

Author : Kumaran Rajaram
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811533952

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Educating Mainland Chinese Learners in Business Education by Kumaran Rajaram Pdf

This book presents strategies and practices for facilitating effective learning for mainland Chinese students in western based education – regarding e.g. the choice of instructional techniques, attention to students’ cultural dislocation aspects, comfort, familiarity, and ease of knowledge transfer. It embeds innovativeness at a conceptual level, and argues for a holistic and “engaged” approach to learning effectiveness for mainland Chinese students.

Author : Ronnel B. King,Allan B. I. Bernardo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789812875761

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The Psychology of Asian Learners by Ronnel B. King,Allan B. I. Bernardo Pdf

This book celebrates the scholarly achievements of Prof. David A. Watkins, who has pioneered research on the psychology of Asian learners, and helps readers grasp the cognitive, motivational, developmental, and socio-cultural aspects of Asian learners learning experiences. A wide range of empirical and review papers, which examine the characteristics of these experiences as they are shaped by both the particularities of diverse educational systems/cultural milieus and universal principles of human learning and development, are showcased. The individual chapters, which explore learners from fourteen Asian countries, autonomous regions, and/or economies, build on research themes and approaches from Prof. Watkins’ research work, and are proof of the broad importance and enduring relevance of his seminal psychological research on learners and the learning process.

Author : Lianghuo Fan
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9812562249

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How Chinese Learn Mathematics by Lianghuo Fan Pdf

The book has been written by an international group of very activeresearchers and scholars who have a passion for the study of Chinesemathematics education. It aims to provide readers with a comprehensiveand updated picture of the teaching and learning of mathematicsinvolving Chinese students from various perspectives, including theways in which Chinese students learn mathematics in classrooms, schools and homes, the influence of the cultural and socialenvironment on Chinese students'' mathematics learning, and thestrengths and weaknesses of the ways in which Chinese learnmathematics

Author : JoAnn Phillion,Suniti Sharma,Hannah L. Sasser,Jubin Rahatzad
Publisher : IAP
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781623966065

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Internationalizing Teacher Education for Social Justice by JoAnn Phillion,Suniti Sharma,Hannah L. Sasser,Jubin Rahatzad Pdf

In Internationalizing Teacher Education for Social Justice: Theory, Research, and Practice, editors Suniti Sharma, JoAnn Phillion, Jubin Rahatzad, and Hannah L. Sasser present a collection of personal, passionate, and participatory global perspectives of teacher educators on internationalizing teacher education for social justice. The reader will encounter each author’s personal and professional journey into global classrooms for internationalizing teacher education and supporting future teachers in developing competencies necessary for addressing the academic needs of diverse K-12 classrooms. This collection provides a broad, critical, and interpretive overview of shifts in U.S. and global perspectives to offer transformative frameworks and strategies on preparing K-12 teachers to meet the complex demands for skills in the twenty-first century. The global tenor of this book, framed by theory, research, and practice spanning several countries provides a timely contribution to internationalizing teacher education for social justice in the twenty-first century. The authors’ dedication to preparing teachers who have knowledge of world cultures and global issues, combined with a deep commitment to social justice for promoting equity in education, informs each chapter. The authors take up the internationalization of teacher education for social justice as both an opportunity and a challenge, transcending rhetoric to meaningful action, situating their global understanding to inform readers of critical engagement with, and examination of, theory, research, and practice for effecting social and educational change.

Author : Jiani Zhu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137533937

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Chinese Overseas Students and Intercultural Learning Environments by Jiani Zhu Pdf

What happens when East travels West? In today’s increasingly globalized world, these collisions are becoming increasingly common in universities– especially due to the growth of migratory students . As the largest international population studying abroad in the world, Chinese students’ learning experience in an intercultural environment calls for more attention. This book covers an array of problems common to Chinese students studying abroad and explores how these students academically adjust to an intercultural environment. It also highlights how they familiarize themselves with the education system, ranging from the types of courses, academic tasks and examinations to the structure of the education as a whole in the host country, as they negotiate the gulf between academic expectations at home versus those in the host university environment and communicate with domestic lecturers and students.

Author : Elena Galinova & Irma Giannetti
Publisher : NACADA
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781935140276

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Advising International Chinese Students: Issues, Strategies, and Practices by Elena Galinova & Irma Giannetti Pdf

Like all of higher education, the academic advising field has expanded beyond North America in the last two decades. Thus, the first offering chosen for the new NACADA Digest Collection educates academic advisors on the issues faced by students coming from China to the United States in pursuit of their college educations. Advising International Chinese Students: Issues, Strategies, and Practices informs and helps academic advisors to better connect specifically with the largest incoming cohort, from China, but the general suggestions also apply to all international students. NACADA introduces this new publication venue in traditional print, EPub, and E-Mobi platforms thus making important literature in the field easily and quickly accessible to 21st century advisors. www.nacada.ksu.edu

Author : Zhou, Chunfang
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799835295

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Introducing Problem-Based Learning (PBL) for Creativity and Innovation in Chinese Universities: Emerging Research and Opportunities by Zhou, Chunfang Pdf

Chinese universities are striving to integrate new educational elements such as student-centered learning, group learning, active learning, and learning by doing into current traditional curriculum systems for creativity development among young generations. However, the concept of creativity by its very nature is a complex term of many perspectives. It is necessary to clarify what creativity is, how creativity can be fostered in learning environments, and what universities should do in order to foster creative young talents. Introducing Problem-Based Learning (PBL) for Creativity and Innovation in Chinese Universities: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a critical scholarly resource that provides a multidimensional understanding on both challenges and opportunities of fostering creativity and PBL in Chinese universities and particularly discusses this implementation in a Chinese cultural context. Though related to a Chinese cultural context, the book can inspire other universities in other cultures, particularly in Asian areas, to learn why PBL is a potential strategy for creativity development and to rethink how to facilitate the innovation capability of universities in the future. Featuring a wide range of topics such as course design, educational technology, and curriculum development, this book is ideal for education professionals, academicians, teaching professors, researchers, administrators, and students.

Author : L. Jin,M. Cortazzi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230299481

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Researching Chinese Learners by L. Jin,M. Cortazzi Pdf

This collection focuses on Chinese learners with original data sets using innovative research methods. It investigates Chinese learners' learning and language skills, perceptions and particularly the processes of reciprocal intercultural adaptations in a wide international context of Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, New Zealand and the UK.

Author : Kelvin Heng Kiat Tan,Mary Anne Heng,Christina Lim-Ratnam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317643500

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Curriculum Leadership by Middle Leaders by Kelvin Heng Kiat Tan,Mary Anne Heng,Christina Lim-Ratnam Pdf

Curriculum Leadership by Middle Leaders focusses on major issues relating to the continuing national and international discourse on curriculum leadership, and highlights the vital role of middle leaders in schools. School leadership has focused primarily on first-order change involving school leaders or principals. This book seeks to put the spotlight on second-order change that involves curriculum leadership and professional development support on the part of middle leaders for more sustainable and long-term change in teaching and learning that will influence what happens in classrooms. With timely and thought-provoking contribution from authors who pursue a range of scholarly interests in multiple educational settings, the book is guided by several underlying questions: How might we re-envision curriculum leadership so that it addresses both local and global concerns and aspirations? How might we better grasp how middle leaders understand and respond to the pressures of educational reform initiatives? How might middle leaders transform pressures into possibilities? This book will appeal to current teachers, those currently undertaking teacher training and students or academics carrying out research in the field of educational leadership.