The new semester has begun in China and students have gradually returned to their schools.However,the end of the summer holiday doesn’t mean a return to school for some children as today a growing number of parents b...The new semester has begun in China and students have gradually returned to their schools.However,the end of the summer holiday doesn’t mean a return to school for some children as today a growing number of parents believe home schooling offers a better education.Public opinion is voicing dissatisfaction with an education system criticized as being outdated.展开更多
In July this year, a controversial new school featuring traditional Chinese education, called Meng Mu Tang, came under the spotlight. Unusual in the current primary schooling in China, the private full-time school bas...In July this year, a controversial new school featuring traditional Chinese education, called Meng Mu Tang, came under the spotlight. Unusual in the current primary schooling in China, the private full-time school based in Shanghai differed in both teaching methods and content. "The students, aged between 4 and 12, are taught to recite Confucian classics," said Lu Liwei, one of the school's founders. "No lectures, no simple展开更多
The new semester has begun and students have gradually returned to their schools. However, the end of the summer holiday doesn’t mean a return to school for some children. Today, a growing number of children in China...The new semester has begun and students have gradually returned to their schools. However, the end of the summer holiday doesn’t mean a return to school for some children. Today, a growing number of children in China are staying at home, not because they are giving up education but because their parents think they will actually receive a better education at home.展开更多
In this paper, we present a cloud service model of multilingual home-school communications （MHSC） with the Drupal framework to provide a friendly learning environment for the students from transnational marriages. T...In this paper, we present a cloud service model of multilingual home-school communications （MHSC） with the Drupal framework to provide a friendly learning environment for the students from transnational marriages. The transnational marriage is a phenomenon with ever-increasing in Taiwan and around the world. For a student who has a transnational foreign mother, home-school communication is often an obstacle because the foreign mother has language difficulty understanding the delivered messages in the communication book from teachers. In order to improve parent-teacher communications for the transnational families, we designed and constructed the cloud service platform with online multilingual communications and translation service functions, such that teachers can prepare different sheets of multilingual messages for home-school communication books and foreign mothers can read the messages from the teachers in their native languages through the web interface.展开更多
In 2004, Wang Chengyan, a 13-year-old Mongolian girl in the Tumote Left Banner of Inner Mongolia, took up her schoolbag again and marched into the classroom of six grade of a local primary school. With her face shinin...In 2004, Wang Chengyan, a 13-year-old Mongolian girl in the Tumote Left Banner of Inner Mongolia, took up her schoolbag again and marched into the classroom of six grade of a local primary school. With her face shining with brilliance, she told her friends： ＂It is brothers and sisters studying in Japan who have paid my way to school.＂展开更多
文摘The new semester has begun in China and students have gradually returned to their schools.However,the end of the summer holiday doesn’t mean a return to school for some children as today a growing number of parents believe home schooling offers a better education.Public opinion is voicing dissatisfaction with an education system criticized as being outdated.
文摘In July this year, a controversial new school featuring traditional Chinese education, called Meng Mu Tang, came under the spotlight. Unusual in the current primary schooling in China, the private full-time school based in Shanghai differed in both teaching methods and content. "The students, aged between 4 and 12, are taught to recite Confucian classics," said Lu Liwei, one of the school's founders. "No lectures, no simple
文摘The new semester has begun and students have gradually returned to their schools. However, the end of the summer holiday doesn’t mean a return to school for some children. Today, a growing number of children in China are staying at home, not because they are giving up education but because their parents think they will actually receive a better education at home.
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文摘In this paper, we present a cloud service model of multilingual home-school communications （MHSC） with the Drupal framework to provide a friendly learning environment for the students from transnational marriages. The transnational marriage is a phenomenon with ever-increasing in Taiwan and around the world. For a student who has a transnational foreign mother, home-school communication is often an obstacle because the foreign mother has language difficulty understanding the delivered messages in the communication book from teachers. In order to improve parent-teacher communications for the transnational families, we designed and constructed the cloud service platform with online multilingual communications and translation service functions, such that teachers can prepare different sheets of multilingual messages for home-school communication books and foreign mothers can read the messages from the teachers in their native languages through the web interface.
文摘In 2004, Wang Chengyan, a 13-year-old Mongolian girl in the Tumote Left Banner of Inner Mongolia, took up her schoolbag again and marched into the classroom of six grade of a local primary school. With her face shining with brilliance, she told her friends： ＂It is brothers and sisters studying in Japan who have paid my way to school.＂
