2010 AERA, 5.1.10: The Presence of China
A Move toward Creativity
I enjoyed the panel discussion about teacher development and classroom teaching driven toward individual creativity led by two vice presidents (Mr. Youqun Ren and Mr. Qi Dong) from two best renowned colleges of education in China. I’m very glad to see this emergent change in K-12 education in China. This country was the earliest country invested printing, compass, paper making, and gunpowder, etc. for the world. However, the contemporary China seemed losing its ancestors’ creativity. The “stereotype” of Chinese students is that they are the most diligent but silent and obedient GROUP. They lack INDIVIDUAL voices and often times individual uniqueness is covered and negated by their group.
2010 AERA: The Presence of China
Ms. Xiaoya Chen, the Vice Minister, Ministry of Education, People’s Republic of China will be leading a delegation from China for the incoming annual meeting of American Educational Research Association in Denver. The delegation consists of professors and two presidents of the best renowned colleges of education in China (i.e., Beijing Normal University and East China Normal University). This is probably the first formal presence of China in AERA which implies China’s increasing attention to the educational research in the U.S. and a move towards open academic environment and global collaboration. The following are the focal sessions (and a reception with special musical performance) to be presented by the delegation:
2010 Youth Trend Report: China
mobileYouth has partnered with enovate which just opened a new office in Shanghai, in developing the latest 2010 Global Youth Trends Report. As reported, by 2015 there will be 500 million people under age 30 in China–roughly the population of the entire European Union. The report is written based on data collected from the two … Read more
Literacy as Power and a State of Grace
Scribner (1984)’s three metaphors of literacy resonated with me a lot when I thought about the ancient values of literacy education in China which nowadays still influences the Chinese culture. I would like to share some thoughts here. Education, esp. literacy education, was commonly viewed as a pathway to success, for lower classes climbing the … Read more
Social Class Differences in Access to Higher Education in China
Thanks Yu for passing this information to me. Prof. Weiyi Wang is currently a visiting professor from Fujian Normal University invited by the Center on Chinese Education of Teachers College. He gave a speech this afternoon at TC about his recent study entitled Social Class Differences in Access to Higher Education in China. This study … Read more
