China’s Education Curriculum Knowledge and Cultural Inscriptions

<p>With a focus on the role of discourse and language in education this book examines China’s educational reform from an original perspective that avoids mapping on Westernized educational sensibilities to a Chinese environment. Zhao untangles the tradition-modernity division expressed in China’s educational language about the body and teacher-student difference. Exploring the historical and cultural implications of the ways China’s schooling is talked about and acted upon Zhao argues that Chinese notion wind (feng) is a defining aspect of Chinese teaching and learning. Incorporating Western and Chinese literature this book explores the language of education curriculum and knowledge on a cross-cultural landscape and as cultural inscriptions. </p>