Culture and cooperation: cooperative learning in Asian Confucian heritage cultures. The case of Viet Nam
Utrecht University, 2008
Online
Hochschulschrift
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The study is concerned with the influence of western educational approaches upon non-western societies and cultural groups. In applying western educational approaches, often a detailed consideration of its consequences to the culture and heritage of a non-western civilization is neglected. This is both the case of a multicultural classroom where students come from different backgrounds and the case of homogeneous classroom in non-western countries where the western teaching and learning approaches are encouraged because they seem to bring higher academic achievement. The research further draws upon a case study that illustrates the application of Cooperative Learning, an educational method that was developed in a western context. Cautions have been raised, concerning diverse influential factors, one of them identified in this study as the cultural factor which refers to norms and values deeply embedded in the cultural niche and everyday’s life pattern of teachers and students, and to a certain extent may exert influence in how they perceive and practice CL. While we may agree that the roots of CL are extant in all cultures, because cooperation is essential to the functioning of human groups, we should acknowledge that different forms of CL are more likely to thrive in different cultures. This study is dedicated to explore the impact of a specific culture on CL process and outcomes by means of experimental research. The particular cultural reference in the study is focused on Asian Confucian Heritage Cultures, which are the cultures historically under the influence of Confucianism in the following countries: Viet Nam, China, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Theoretical analyses conducted to examine what aspect of Asian-CHC specifically may influence CL and in what way reveal a number of domains where cultural conflicts and mismatch are likely to happen when the mainstream CL approaches are applied in Asian context without a rigorous adaptation to improve compatibility with the host culture in the ...
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Culture and cooperation: cooperative learning in Asian Confucian heritage cultures. The case of Viet Nam
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Nguyen, P.M. ; Docent & Didactiek ; Inst.v.Lerarenopl,Onderw.ontw.en Studiev ; Pilot, Albert ; Terlouw, Kees |
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Veröffentlichung: | Utrecht University, 2008 |
Medientyp: | Hochschulschrift |
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