Since the 1980s,China has entered an era of transformation which has extended its reach to education and school reforms.The“New Basic Education”(NBE)was born in this era and implemented by the East China Normal Univ...Since the 1980s,China has entered an era of transformation which has extended its reach to education and school reforms.The“New Basic Education”(NBE)was born in this era and implemented by the East China Normal University together with schools around the country.NBE aims at nurturing the active,healthy development of a new generation of Chinese people,focusing on classroom teaching and reform,and life practice within the classroom,as well as a reconstruction of school management.A breakthrough has been made with the development of a system that is suitable for the practice of education in China.展开更多
This paper presents the case of one Sister School in the Canada-China Reciprocal Learning Project based on a belief that practice has significant value for the development of teachers’intercultural awareness and scho...This paper presents the case of one Sister School in the Canada-China Reciprocal Learning Project based on a belief that practice has significant value for the development of teachers’intercultural awareness and schools’intercultural communication experience.This paper focuses on one Shanghai school’s reciprocal learning experience,highlighting the content of intercultural communication,the areas of collaboration,the characteristics of collaboration,and the attitudes towards collaboration in the intercultural context.Against the backdrop of New Basic Education reform in China,I try to depict how a Sister School partnership guided by the principle of reciprocal learning motivates Chinese and Canadian teachers to work together across cultural differences in order to learn and develop in terms of theory and practice.I also discuss difficulties and challenges that have occurred in the process of intercultural communication.In the process,reciprocal learning is re-conceptualized and relived as part of our research endeavor.展开更多
基金This research was supported as part of the Key Project for Humanities and Social Sciences and approved by the Ministry of Education of PRC(11JJD880034):Basic Education Reform and the Development of Innovative“Life/Practice”Educational Research.
文摘Since the 1980s,China has entered an era of transformation which has extended its reach to education and school reforms.The“New Basic Education”(NBE)was born in this era and implemented by the East China Normal University together with schools around the country.NBE aims at nurturing the active,healthy development of a new generation of Chinese people,focusing on classroom teaching and reform,and life practice within the classroom,as well as a reconstruction of school management.A breakthrough has been made with the development of a system that is suitable for the practice of education in China.
文摘This paper presents the case of one Sister School in the Canada-China Reciprocal Learning Project based on a belief that practice has significant value for the development of teachers’intercultural awareness and schools’intercultural communication experience.This paper focuses on one Shanghai school’s reciprocal learning experience,highlighting the content of intercultural communication,the areas of collaboration,the characteristics of collaboration,and the attitudes towards collaboration in the intercultural context.Against the backdrop of New Basic Education reform in China,I try to depict how a Sister School partnership guided by the principle of reciprocal learning motivates Chinese and Canadian teachers to work together across cultural differences in order to learn and develop in terms of theory and practice.I also discuss difficulties and challenges that have occurred in the process of intercultural communication.In the process,reciprocal learning is re-conceptualized and relived as part of our research endeavor.
