Sobre El Autor
Yong Zhao is a Foundation Distinguished Professor in the School of Education at the University of Kansas and a Professorial fellow at the Mitchell Institute for Health and Education Policy at Victoria University in Australia.
Obras de Yong Zhao
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon: Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World (2014) 28 copias
What Should Teachers Know about Technology?: Perspectives and Practices (PB) (Research Methods for Educational… (2003) 8 copias
Research in Technology and Second Language Learning: Developments and Directions (Research in Second Language Learning) (2004) 7 copias
The Take-Action Guide to World Class Learners Book 3: How to Create a Campus Without Borders (2016) 6 copias
Counting What Counts: Reframing Education Outcomes (A Research-Based Look at the Traits and Skills that Contribute to… (2015) 5 copias
Reach for Greatness: Personalizable Education for All Children (Corwin Impact Leadership Series) (2018) 5 copias
The take-action guide to world class learners. Book 2, How to "make" product-oriented learning happen (2016) 4 copias
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 20
- Miembros
- 276
- Popularidad
- #84,078
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 57
With that limited bit of knowledge, I read this book. The author - Yong Zhao - definitely has an agenda. Throughout this book, over and over again, he reiterates that standardized testing is the result of an authoritarian regime which fosters obedience and rote memorization but stifles creativity and independent thought. He argues against the testing we have in the US as the beginning of a WORSE educational system, fearing that our future generations will lose the passion, drive, creative thinking, and improvisation necessary to succeed in our modern world.
There were definitely some good points brought up here; however, I felt like he was hammering this opinion over and and over and over again relentlessly. It was very much like a thesis - here is my stand and here are the important reasons my stand is correct. He dislikes PISA and the people involved in PISA but as I don't have any children I really don't understand our testing system completely and it was never fully explained.
I'm wiser for having read the book, but I have so many unanswered questions about the Chinese educational system still and our own educational system that it can't be a be-all end-all book for me. (It was a very quick, very easy read that seemed to just touch the surface of the subject.)… (más)