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Success for All: A Comprehensive Educational Reform for Improving At-Risk Students in an Urban School in China (Hc) - Tapa dura

Zhou, Yanyu

 
9781593119409: Success for All: A Comprehensive Educational Reform for Improving At-Risk Students in an Urban School in China (Hc)
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ISBN 10: 1593119402 ISBN 13: 9781593119409
Editorial: Information Age Publishing, 2008

Sinopsis

This book provides a detailed account of an educational experiment in a middle school in Shanghai,China. The school, called Zhabei No. 8 Middle School (hereafter No. 8 School), is locatedin a run-down, lower working class district. Since the mid-1980s the school has experimented onan educational reform program called success education, aiming to help those at-risk students tobe successful in school. This book illustrates how this educational experiment has been carriedout and identified experiences that could be learned by the international educational community.The book analyzes the critical role played by Principal Liu Jinghai, and particular attention ispaid to the strategies adopted by the school to help enhance students’ self-esteem through integratinglove and care throughout the school’s curriculum and activities. The pivotal roles playedby teachers called “class directors” are meticulously studied, and efforts the school has made tocollaborate with parents and the local community are examined. An ethnographic approach wasused to gather data in this study. A combination of interviews, participant-observation, and document analysis was applied to arrive at asystematic and complex understanding of this educational endeavor in China.

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This book provides a detailed account of an educational experiment in a middle school in Shanghai, China. The school, called Zhabei No. 8 Middle School (hereafter No. 8 School), is located in a run-down, lower working class district. Since the mid-1980s the school has experimented on an educational reform program called success education, aiming to help those at-risk students to be successful in school. This book illustrates how this educational experiment has been carried out and identified experiences that could be learned by the international educational community. The book analyzes the critical role played by Principal Liu Jinghai, and particular attention is paid to the strategies adopted by the school to help enhance students’ self-esteem through integrating love and care throughout the school’s curriculum and activities. The pivotal roles played by teachers called “class directors” are meticulously studied, and efforts the school has made to collaborate with parents and the local community are examined. An ethnographic approach was used to gather data in this study. A combination of interviews, participant-observation, and document analysis was applied to arrive at a systematic and complex understanding of this educational endeavor in China.

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Editorial
Information Age Publishing
Año de publicación
2008
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1593119402
ISBN 13 
9781593119409
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
300
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