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- Discusses cooperative learning including underpinning perspectives, definitions and popular cooperative learning models
- Discusses how and why CHC nations have been trying to replace teacher-centered instruction to student-centered
- Discusses comparative cultural theories as frameworks to clarify differences in teaching and learning between the West and East
- Proposes culturally appropriate strategies to assist CHC teachers to reduce lecturing and adopt cooperative learning activities
Part of the book series: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects (EDAP, volume 25)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
During the last two decades Confucian heritage culture countries have widely promoted teaching and learning reforms to advance their educational systems. To skip the painfully long research stage, Confucian heritage culture educators have borrowed Western philosophies and practices with the assumption that what has been done successfully in the West will produce similar outcomes in the East. The wide importation of cooperative learning practices to Confucian heritage culture classrooms recently is an example. However, cooperative learning has been documented in many studies not to work effectively in Confucian heritage culture classrooms. The reason is that the educators often impose this instructional method on the students without a careful consideration of its appropriateness in the socio-cultural context of Confucian heritage culture countries. This procedure is not effective and professional because learning does not stand alone. Rather, it is shaped and influenced by other factors including teaching methods, learning tasks, assessment demands, workload and the learning culture of students in the local context. For cooperative learning to work effectively in Confucian heritage culture classrooms, reformers need to consider the importation of this approach in line with a careful examination of all supports and constraints that affect those factors that are associated with learning.
The volume provides an applied theoretical framework and culturally appropriate and practical instructions that could assist Confucian heritage culture educators and teachers to address various factors at multiple levels in order to optimize success in importing cooperative learning to their classrooms. Overall, it provides strategies to assist Confucian heritage culture teachers to change their teaching practices, redesign lessons plans, design assessment methods, and organize learning activities in a manner that can influence Confucian heritage culture students to shift from employing teacher-centered learning approaches to cooperative learning.
Authors and Affiliations
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School of Education, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Pham Thi Hong Thanh
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Implementing Cross-Culture Pedagogies
Book Subtitle: Cooperative Learning at Confucian Heritage Cultures
Authors: Pham Thi Hong Thanh
Series Title: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4451-91-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-4451-90-1Published: 11 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1151-1Published: 18 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-981-4451-91-8Published: 27 November 2013
Series ISSN: 1573-5397
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9791
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 221
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: International and Comparative Education, Philosophy of Education, Learning & Instruction, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation