Overview
- Develops an in-depth account of a more than 10-year sister-school cross-cultural exchange between a school in Shanghai and a school in Toronto
- Addresses the cultural characteristics of reciprocal learning among teachers and principals
- Provides an overview of China’s (modern) educational history, built around the incorporation of a variety of western models of the “modern” school
Part of the book series: Intercultural Reciprocal Learning in Chinese and Western Education (IRLCWE)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This edited volume explores how Chinese school-based educators learn from others and attain awareness in dialogue with the world in an era of increasing globalization and information exchange. Minzhu Primary School in Shanghai, China, and Bay Street School in Toronto, Canada, have been connected as sister schools of cross-cultural exchange since 2008. Together, they have explored ways to reciprocally learn in a cross-cultural partnership while remaining grounded in their home culture and language. In this book, chapter authors examine how Chinese school-based educators view themselves, understand others, and grow and develop as a consequence of a decade of cross-cultural reciprocal learning as sister schools. Further, the authors discuss prospects for future educational interactions between Canada and China.
Reviews
—Cheryl J. Craig, Professor and Houston Endowment Endowed Chair of Urban Education, Texas A&M University, USA
“This book provides a compelling counter force to the growing Anglosphere-Sinosphere tensions confronting global harmony. The authors feature philosophical and practical points of harmony between Eastern and Western education while valuing and maintaining the independent integrity of each. Canadian and Chinese educators learn from one another while pursuing and deepening their own traditions.”
—Michael Connelly, Professor Emeritus, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, Canada
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Yuhua Bu is Professor, PhD Supervisor, and Deputy Director of both the Institute of “Life Practice” Educology Research and the Institute of Schooling Reform and Development at East China Normal University, China. Her research interests include philosophy of education, teacher education, school reform, and ethics of education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Narrative Inquiry into Reciprocal Learning Between Canada-China Sister Schools
Book Subtitle: A Chinese Perspective
Editors: Yuhua Bu
Series Title: Intercultural Reciprocal Learning in Chinese and Western Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61085-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61084-5Published: 30 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61087-6Published: 30 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-61085-2Published: 29 January 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-417X
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4188
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 320
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Teaching and Teacher Education, International and Comparative Education, Education, general, Administration, Organization and Leadership