Culturally Responsive Teaching in China: Instructional Strategy and Teachers' Attitudes

Autor/inn/en	Zhang, Li; Wang, Yuan Jun
Titel	Culturally Responsive Teaching in China: Instructional Strategy and Teachers' Attitudes
Quelle	In: Intercultural Education, 27 (2016) 1, S.54-69 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1467-5986
DOI	10.1080/14675986.2016.1144632
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Culturally Relevant Education; Teacher Attitudes; Teaching Methods; Semi Structured Interviews; Questionnaires; Elementary School Students; Educational Practices; Minority Group Students; Case Studies; Comparative Analysis; Cultural Awareness; China; China (Beijing) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Lehrerverhalten; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Fragebogen; Bildungspraxis; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität
Abstract	The aim of this study was to investigate the manner in which teachers facilitate the pedagogical process within a culturally diverse student population. The study focused on two primary schools in China; one located in a more fully developed city in eastern China (Case A), while the other was in a less developed city in rural western China (Case B). This allowed the researchers to compare and analyse the different instructional practices by means of semi-structured interviews and questionnaires. The findings indicate that: the teachers in Case A demonstrated overall affirmative attitudes towards ethnic minority cultures, as well as towards the students belonging to those cultures. However, the teachers also chose not to mention the specific ethnic identities and cultural differences of the students during the course of their instruction in order to ensure equal treatment for everyone. This leads to a kind of "cultural blindness" in the classroom. In Case B, opinions regarding minority cultures were more varied. Compared with the teachers in Case A, more teachers in Case B found minority cultures to be inferior to the dominant Han culture. Some teachers also, counter intuitively, were of the opinion that the minority cultures were even superior. At the instructional level, school leadership developed courses on local culture and ethnicity for the teaching staff. This was done for a variety of reasons. The strongest evidence to support culturally responsive teaching in Case A does not stem from teaching and learning demands but from the necessity to pursue characteristics that make them distinctive from other schools at the same time, Case B's practice of culturally responsive teaching was strongly supported by the government and UNICEF. Teachers in both schools indicated that they had integrated their knowledge of ethnic minority groups into the subject matter when it was necessary. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01