Revisiting The Chinese Learner

Contents List of Tables vii List of Figures viii Abbreviations ix Foreword x John B. BIGGS Preface xiii INTRODUCTION 1. Moving Beyond Paradoxes: Understanding Chinese Learners and Their Teachers 3 Nirmala RAO and Carol K.K. CHAN STUDENT BELIEFS AND APPROACHES TO LEARNING 2. Learning to Self-Perfect: Chinese Beliefs about Learning 35 Jin LI 3. Motivation and Competition in Hong Kong Secondary Schools: The Students’ Perspective 71 David A. WATKINS 4. New Experiences, New Epistemology, and the Pressures of Change: The Chinese Learner in Transition 89 Nancy W.Y. LAW, Allan H.K. YUEN, Carol K.K. CHAN, Johnny K.L. YUEN, Nicol F.C. PAN, Ming LAI and Venus S.L. LEE TEACHER BELIEFS, CHANGING PEDAGOGY AND TEACHER LEARNING 5. The Chinese Learner of Tomorrow 133 Ference MARTON and the EDB Chinese Language Research Team 6. Classroom Innovation for the Chinese Learner: Transcending Dichotomies and Transforming Pedagogy 169 Carol K.K. CHAN 7. Teaching Mathematics: Observations from Urban and Rural Schools in Mainland China 211 Nirmala RAO, Jin CHI and Kai-ming CHENG 8. Teaching English to Chinese-Speaking Children 233 Linda SIEGEL, Ellen KNELL, Miao PEI, Haiyan QIANG, Wei ZHAO and Lin ZHAO 9. Preschool Pedagogy: A Fusion of Traditional Chinese Beliefs and Contemporary Notions of Appropriate Practice 255 Nirmala RAO, Sharon S.N. NG and Emma PEARSON 10. In Search of a Third Space: Teacher Development in Mainland China 281 Amy B.M. TSUI and Jocelyn L.N. WONG CONCLUSION 11. The Paradoxes Revisited: The Chinese Learner in Changing Educational Contexts 315 Carol K.K. CHAN andNirmala RAO Notes on the Authors 351 Index 357.