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.

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

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Friends from Afar.- 3. Dewey Meets Confucius.- 4. Literature Review, Theoretical Framework and Research Method.- 5. Society, History, and Interaction of Sister Schools.- 6. Circles and Straight Lines: Teachers' Life Worlds.- 7. Interaction Between Teachers and Students.- 8. Leadership and Power.- 9. Faith and Action.- 10. Future.