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Dai, Jinxin – Educational Forum, 2013
Many schools in China focus on memorization of facts for the purpose of performing on standardized tests, causing a lack of enthusiasm among teachers and students. This essay discusses some of the challenges surrounding education practices in China and identifies participatory environment, book-related pretend play, and the use of technology as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Play, Teaching Methods, Imagination
Yang, Rui – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2006
Globalisation, as described by Appadurai, is the term for a process characterised by disjunctive flows that can generate acute problems of social well-being. One potential positive force that encourages an emancipatory politics of globalisation is the role of the imagination in social life. Globalisation requires rethinking the role of the…
Descriptors: Imagination, Role, Policy Formation, Social Life
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Shi, Fuqian; Wei, Jincai – International Education Studies, 2008
In the current teaching activities on curriculum, teachers taught all kinds of computer language at the most of the time. Students also focus on a variety of examinations, but the real time to train students' independent software developing skill is very limited. This has resulted in the students only to copy other people's systems design ideas,…
Descriptors: Programming, Creative Thinking, Creative Development, Science Activities