Chinese Language Teachers’ Beliefs and Experiences in Denmark

Chinese Language Teachers’ Beliefs and Experiences in Denmark
Author: Li Wang
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2024-12-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1040300383

This book presents recent advances in foreign language education as well as recent work on Chinese language education and CFL teacher development in international contexts. It also reports the results of three qualitative studies on the experiences and beliefs of teachers of the Chinese language in in Denmark. There are rising concerns over quality issues in both Chinese language education and teacher development in Scandinavian countries and worldwide, broadly due to China’s rapid growth and the increasing worldwide popularity of Chinese. What CFL (Chinese as a Foreign Language) teachers believe in teaching and experience in the intercultural context have proposed new questions and issues. The book addresses issues and topics such as teacher beliefs about Chinese language teaching, factors shaping teacher beliefs, the teaching of Chinese by both native and non-native teachers, Chinese language and culture teaching, intercultural encounters and challenges, etc. It provides both macro- and micro-level insights into the key issues and challenges in the development of Chinese language teachers in Denmark and the Scandinavian region. Taking the perspectives of Chinese language teachers’ beliefs and experiences, this book reveals teachers’ beliefs about their roles, objectives, and ways of teaching at the micro level. It also discusses the macro-level factors that promote or impede the adaptation of native-speaking teachers of Chinese and the development of Chinese-language education in this Nordic country. It will be of interest to teachers, teacher educators, administrators of Chinese as a foreign language, and researchers concerned with foreign language education in an intercultural context.

Nordic-Chinese Intersections within Education

Nordic-Chinese Intersections within Education
Author: Haiqin Liu
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2019-11-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 303028588X

This book examines how the two educational systems of China and the Nordic countries intersect. Over the past decade, there has been increased growth and interaction between China and the Nordic countries due to both government encouragement and academic curiosity. This book rejects a simplistic approach that presents both spaces as culturally uniform, confronting ‘East’ and ‘West’ entities, and suggests a comparative and contrastive approach that is critical and reflexive in both theory and methodology. This does not solely concentrate on difference, but emphasises similarities, including studies on philosophical, conceptual and methodological issues. This nuanced edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of Nordic and Chinese education as well as globalisation and interculturality.

Chinese Educational Migration and Student-Teacher Mobilities

Chinese Educational Migration and Student-Teacher Mobilities
Author: Fred Dervin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2016-04-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1137492910

This collected volume examines the multifaceted contexts and experiences of Chinese students, teachers and scholars in Australia, Denmark, France, Japan, the UK and the US. It can serve both as an introduction to Chinese people's mobility and migration in Higher Education and as a thorough review for more knowledgeable readers.

Teaching and Learning Culture

Teaching and Learning Culture
Author: Mads Jakob Kirkebæk
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2013-11-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9462094403

This book is based on educational research conducted by researchers from the Department of Learning and Philosophy and the Confucius Institute for Innovation and Learning at Aalborg University. Empirically, it reports on different approaches to teaching and learning of culture, including a student-centered task-based problem-based learning (PBL) approach, a digital technology-supported approach and more. It also reports on how, when teaching and learning culture, teachers’ professional identity and the informal teaching and learning environment impact the teaching and learning of culture in different educational settings from primary school to university. A central theme in the book is the power of context. The studies illustrate in multiple ways, and from different angles, that “culture is not taught in a vacuum or learned in isolation”, but may be influenced by many factors both inside and outside the classroom; at the same time, culture also influences the context of the learning. The context may be “invisible” and hide itself as tacit knowledge or embedded values, or it may be very visible and present itself as a fixed curriculum or an established tradition. No matter what forms and shapes the context takes, the studies in this book strongly indicate that it is essential to be aware of the power of context in teaching and learning culture in order to understand it and negotiate it. This book suggests that teachers should not try to limit or avoid contextual influences, but instead, should explore how the context may be integrated into and used constructively in the teaching and learning of culture. This allowance of context in the classroom will allow for teachers, students, subjects and contexts to enter into a dialogue and negotiation of meaning that will enrich each other and achieve the established goal – acquisition of cultural awareness and intercultural understanding.

Teaching Chinese in the Anglophone World

Teaching Chinese in the Anglophone World
Author: Danping Wang
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2023
Genre: Chinese language
ISBN: 3031354753

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of Chinese language teaching in New Zealand, in light of the declining interest in foreign language learning in Anglophone countries. While existing scholarly works have discussed Chinese language education in other Anglophone countries, this book is the first to provide an in-depth examination of the landscape of Chinese language teaching in contemporary, multicultural New Zealand, featuring insights from leading experts. The book consists of 21 chapters written by 29 contributors, including research students, experienced teachers, and leading scholars in every educational sector, from preschool to university and from mainstream education to community schools. As the first volume to focus on this subject, the book provides both historical perspectives and multilevel analyses of critical milestones, based on the latest data, policy changes, and politico-economic conditions shaping the future direction of Chinese language education in New Zealand. Its purpose is to offer insights and an overview of the New Zealand case that can help policymakers, programme leaders, researchers, teachers, and learners in the Anglophone world and beyond, to better respond to the rapidly changing and challenging environments they face. In addition to the Foreword by Patricia Duff and the Epilogue, the book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in Chinese language education in New Zealand, and serves as a catalyst for further discussion and research on this topic.

Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Foreign or Second Language: The Educational Psychology Perspective

Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Foreign or Second Language: The Educational Psychology Perspective
Author: Yang Frank Gong
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2024-02-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 2832545084

Over the past two decades, Chinese as a foreign or second language (CFL/CSL) has been increasingly taught and learnt as an important language both within and outside China. Studies in the field have attempted to address deep-seated tensions between existing educational ideologies, concepts, strategies, and approaches and student learning process and performance, and between existent teaching methods and techniques and the globalization of Chinese language education.

Interculturality in Chinese Language Education

Interculturality in Chinese Language Education
Author: Tinghe Jin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2017-06-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1137583223

This book calls for a change in the way interculturality is introduced in Chinese language education, while the demand for Chinese language teaching increases around the world. The concept of culture – as in the phrase ‘Chinese culture’ – has often been one of the main emphases of Chinese language education, providing students with facts about China and ‘recipes’ on how to meet Chinese people and how to behave like them. However, Chinese culture, like all cultures, does not constitute a closed system, but is constantly evolving and exchanging with other cultures. This unique volume comprises studies from around the world that promote intercultural awareness, dialogue, and encounters in Chinese language education. Written in a clear and readable style, this book will appeal to a diverse readership, from practising and training teachers of Chinese, to researchers interested in language and intercultural education.

Understanding Teacher Beliefs in an Intercultural Context

Understanding Teacher Beliefs in an Intercultural Context
Author: Li Wang
Publisher: River Publishers Series in Inn
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2019-06-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9788770220866

The Teaching of Chinese as a Foreign Language (TCFL) is expanding rapidly worldwide, resulting in a substantial increase in the number of Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) teachers, which in turn draws greater attention to a variety of global aspects. In Denmark, TCFL is a newly established profession and CFL teachers face numerous challenges when adapting to their intercultural experience. Using empirical data from 18 CFL teachers in different educational institutions in Denmark, this book explores the dynamics of factors shaping both Chinese and Danish CFL teachers' beliefs in the Danish classrooms, and their belief change during the course of teaching. Understanding Teacher Beliefs in an Intercultural Context presents state-of-the-art knowledge of the beliefs and experiences of the different groups of CFL teachers in the Danish context. This book is useful for professionals, researchers, graduate students who have an interest in education in general, foreign language education and teacher education.

Arts-Based Education

Arts-Based Education
Author: Tatiana Chemi
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2019-05-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9004399488

Core texts addressing creativity in a number of contexts show that creativity as a scientific subject has received principally the attention of Western scholars. Is this due to the fact that Western cultures are more creative or sensitive to creativity than the Eastern cultures? The editors strongly believe that this is more due to the differences in understanding and practising creativity in the West and East than to an Eastern indifference to creativity. Arts-Based Education: China and Its Intersection with the World investigates the field of arts-based educational practices and research. It argues that reflections on these themes must necessarily be reframed and re-read beyond the limits of colonialist oppositions and suggests a constructive and reflexive approach to theory and methodology, which takes into account intercultural and critical perspectives in these studies. This volume is the tangible product of the acknowledgement that China and Chinese culture deserves a more systematic and up-to-date dissemination through recent studies that bring together the arts, learning and creativity. It is clustered around two themes: (1) China and its communication with the world through arts-based education in international contexts, and (2) the development of arts education in China.

Teaching the Chinese Language Remotely

Teaching the Chinese Language Remotely
Author: Shijuan Liu
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2022-01-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3030870553

This edited book brings together global perspectives and case studies from five continents to provide an international picture of teaching Chinese remotely. It consists of 15 original chapters by 21 authors from 10 countries. Addressing both practice and research, these chapters collectively offer a comprehensive view of how Chinese language courses worldwide were urgently moved to fully online during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic.This edited volume reports fresh and first-hand experiences of Chinese language instructors and students in different countries as well as their perceptions of issues regarding remote teaching and learning in an emergency situation.The book will be of interest to Chinese language teachers and students, as well as scholars with a focus on language education and online teaching and learning more broadly.