The Chinese Learner: Cultural, Psychological, and Contextual InfluencesDavid A. Watkins, John Burville Biggs CERC, 1996 - 285 oldal This is the first book to paint a clear, research based picture of how Chinese students and their teachers see the context and content 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 (often out-performing their Western peers) when their teaching and learning seems to be so oriented to rote memorization?'. It is concluded that at the heart of this paradox are cross-cultural differences in the very processes of teaching and learning, particularly concerning the relationship between memorizing and understanding and the nature of motivation. Widely held Western stereotypes and misconceptions of Chinese learners are shown to be largely without foundation. |
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... neo - Piagetian theories of cognitive development ( Demetriou , Shayer , and Efklides , 1992 ) ; and post - structuralisan ( Delandsheere and Petrovsky , 1994 ) . The curriculum in a qualitative framework defines levels of understanding ...
... neo - Piagetian theories of cognitive development ( Demetriou , Shayer , and Efklides , 1992 ) ; and post - structuralisan ( Delandsheere and Petrovsky , 1994 ) . The curriculum in a qualitative framework defines levels of understanding ...
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a crosscultural perspective | 3 |
conceptions of learning in | 25 |
Western misperceptions of the Confucianheritage learning culture | 45 |
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