ISBN: 9781402055676 - portraits of influential chinese educators: 17 (cerc studies in comparative education, 17) (13 resultados)

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Buch. Condición: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Portraits, whether graphic or verbal, have distinct purposes and values. Through deliberate selection, they seek to reveal and, thereby, to illuminate. In their literary form, selection of content and style ensures that they do not presume to achieve the status of fully-fledged biographies. Even so, a carefully brush-stroked, multi-layered and richly textured pen-portrait is capable of revealing much about both character and circumstance. And what it reveals is likely to be different from and far more profound than any insights permitted by other miniatures, such as simple snapshots or polemical caricatures. Professor Ruth Hayhoe has produced a whole gallery of valuable portraits in the present book. For a book in the present series, however, a key question remains. How and why may pen-portraits of eleven influential educators, from a single country and within roughly the same time frame, contribute significantly to the literature of comparative education My own answer to this question is simple. This particular gallery makes its important contribution in two main ways and for a number of good reasons. The 'How ' part of the question clearly involves process, especially methodological process. A portrait typically involves both foreground and background features. Some of the most effective portraits seem to encourage their observers to recognize interplay between foreground and background.…

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Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book conveys an understanding of China's educational development from within and provides unique insights into Chinese society. It does so through portraits of eleven influential educators whose ideas have shaped the educational reforms initiated by Deng Xiaoping in 1978. The book makes Chinese civilization concrete through the drama of the real lives of educators and provides glimpses into the educational context of China's recent move onto the world stage. 398 pp. Englisch.…