Transformative Education For The Second Renaissance - 9781641136549

Transformative Education for the Second Renaissance follows educator John PW Hudson through a personal and professional journey that led him to respond to what he sees as underlying fissures in the bedrock of educational practice. At the height of his career, he was seconded by the Richmond (BC Canada) school district to teach a demonstration class in the Nanashan Xian Middle School in Shenzhen, China, at the request of the school, and philanthropists Joe and Margaret Li, initiators of the project and sponsors. His assignment was to demonstrate and explain Western teaching methods to educators and other interested parties including university students and their professors from various parts of China, local and national education officials, teachers at the Nanshan Xian middle school (where he lived and taught for two years), and civic officials as well. Most days a television camera was in the room, and several adults sitting watching--

• | Author: John P. W. Hudson
• | Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• | Publication Date: Jun 10, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 170 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1641136545
• | ISBN-13: 9781641136549