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Yeung, Sze Yin Shirley – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2009
Hong Kong has been actively promoting a student-centered approach to teaching since the 1980s. Despite this effort, students in Hong Kong still tend to be traditional learners who rarely experience and gain from real student-centered learning. While teachers hold a "quantitative" concept of learning and focus on transmitting declarative…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Rote Learning, Ideology, Foreign Countries
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Smith, Tracy Wilson; Colby, Susan A. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2007
The authors have been engaged in research focused on students' depth of learning as well as teachers' efforts to foster deep learning. Findings from a study examining the teaching practices and student learning outcomes of sixty-four teachers in seventeen different states (Smith et al. 2005) indicated that most of the learning in these classrooms…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Depth Perception, Outcomes of Education, Teaching Methods