Full Description
There has been much debate in recent times between the Anglo American tradition of curriculum studies and the Continental and North European tradition of didactics (Didaktik). As important as such debate has been, this book seeks to add new voices to the debate representing ideas and traditions from a different part of the world. The focus is on Chinese curriculum thinking that has passed through a number of stages and currently represents a blend of some aspects of the American tradition and Chinese cultural traditions. How does Chinese thinking about curriculum, teaching and learning resonate with European didactic traditions and what are the implications for theorizing an expanded field of curriculum studies? This book deliberately transcends borders and cultures to explore new territory, to provide a platform for open dialogue and to open up new areas of investigation
Chapters include,
Curriculum Reform and Research in China: A Social-Historical Perspective
What Mathematics Did Teachers Learn? Comparison of the School and the Pre-Service Teacher Mathematics Curricula in Germany and Taiwan
Living in Parallel Worlds: A Transatlantic Dialogue between General Didactics and Instructional Design
Contents
Series editor's note
List of figures and tables
Contributors
List of abbreviations
1. Introduction: Theorizing curriculum, teaching and learning in multiple spaces
Section 1: Perspectives on Chinese curriculum - Overview
2. Curriculum Reform and Research in China: A Social-Historical Perspective
3. Reactivating Templates for International Curriculum Consciousness: Reconsidering Intellectual Legacies and Policy Practices between Chinese, Anglo-American and European Curriculum Studies
4. Views of Chinese Scholars on the Postmodern Curriculum
5. Theoretical Trends for Curriculum and Teaching in Taiwan: On the Reform of the National Basic Education Curriculum
6. The Rationale of Learner-centered Teaching and its Practice in Hong Kong: A Perspective from a Confucian Heritage Culture
7. Didactics Meets Curriculum Studies in the Context of Teacher Education in Mainland China: A Historical and Comparative Perspective
8. German Didactics and its Implications for Curriculum Development in Taiwan
9. What mathematics did teachers learn? Comparison of the school and the pre-service teacher mathematics curricula in Germany and Taiwan
Section 2: Perspectives on European didactic traditions- Overview
10. The German Didaktik Tradition Revisited
11. Didaktik and Curriculum Studies: A European Perspective
12. Civic Education in the view of the UNESCO Decade of Education for Sustainable Development and German Didactics and Curricula of Higher Education
13. Pedagogical Thinking and Instructional Design: The Didaktik Perspective
14. The Power of Eclecticism: Didactics Textbooks in USA and Germany
15. Living in Parallel Worlds: A Transatlantic Dialogue Between General Di-dactics and Instructional Design
16. Conclusion: Lessons Learned from Theorising Curriculum, Teaching and Learning in an Asia-Europe Dialogue
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