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Spalding, Elizabeth; Wang, Jian; Lin, Emily; Butcher, John – New Educator, 2009
Understanding the interplay among experience, beliefs, and contexts of teaching in preservice and inservice teachers' learning to teach is crucial to improving teacher quality for diverse populations. This study examined the impact of a summer camp English teaching experience in China on the ideas and practice of two White, middle-class female…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Faculty Development, Teacher Improvement, Preservice Teachers
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Chiu, Son-Mey – New Educator, 2009
By following their wonderful ideas or critical exploration, three eighth graders learned how to do traditional Chinese painting, which is taught by copying old masters' work from the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century. The standard manual, which most learners have been using for these three hundred years, is the "Mustard Seed Garden Manual of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Painting (Visual Arts), Plants (Botany), Cultural Context