The Global Search for Education: Creative China – Part 2
“It requires tremendous emotional intelligence, self-understanding, wisdom, maturity, and confidence to maintain a minimal interventionist attitude while offering non-judgmental support and encouragement. Teachers and students are the real stars of any great school, and real education leadership means playing a backstage and supporting role.” — Jiang Xueqin According to Jiang Xueqin, “the gap between the...
The Global Search for Education: China Comes to New York
“Chinese traditional culture is especially important today, when the society is gradually losing its moral standards due to utilitarianism and materialism.”– Lee Shu Ping The number of Chinese students seeking to be educated in the West has received significant media attention in recent years, but what about the flipside? As the world’s second largest economy continues to grow and evolve, what will this mean...
The Global Search for Education: East vs. West – Face Time
“Those who can successfully negotiate between two culturally distinct environments with ease become natural leaders in cross-cultural situations, making them cultural brokers and marketable cosmopolitans.” — Pak Tee Ng “Working and spending time in another country with education professionals and students from other countries, listening to their thoughts, cultural perceptions and expectations, are powerful ways...
The Global Search for Education: East vs. West – News from Malaysia
“The real challenge for the Malaysian education system is twofold. Firstly, it is to embrace and engage in real and sustainable change, and secondly, to strive for the equity and excellence that the high performing systems around the word embody.” – Alma Harris Why is transformation needed in the Malaysian education system and how will it best be secured and sustained? In the latest PISA tests, Malaysia scored 52nd...
The Global Search for Education: East vs. West – Part 1
“While there is rich cultural diversity in Asian countries, it is not as pronounced or complex as in many Western systems such as the USA and the UK. In inner city London it is perfectly possible for a teacher to be facing a class of children with ten to fifteen different languages.” — Alma Harris Is education in the East superior to education in the West? Today I begin a new series that explores this question with...
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