Good Writing in Cross-Cultural Context (Suny Serie (SUNY series, Literacy, Culture, and Learning: Theory and Practice) - Softcover

Li, Xiao-Ming

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791426807 ISBN 13: 9780791426807

Verlag: State University of New York Press, 1995

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Book by Li XiaoMing

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"As the first ethnographical account of teachers' perceptions about good writing in China and America, this book gives the reader a whole new insight about differences and similarities in educational systems, teacher training, and teaching between two nations. The systems and teachers described in the book come alive." -- Ulla Connor, Indiana University in Indianapolis

"Xiao-ming Li's book of what teachers say about student writing is a meticulous analysis of the operating criteria of expert teachers, those who mold the structure and the style of a whole generation of students. By exploring both the common ground within a culture and the differences between the Chinese and United States cultures, Li shows how standards are formed and the forms those standards take.

"In a postmodern world these differences are seen; but within each of the cultures, there is a strong modernist and universalist approach to writing. The two sets of teachers exhibit this tendency. Hence their authority. They are indeed authoring the way another generation of students will write. Some of those students may rebel, but probably few will.

"Although the teachers may call for individuality of expression, pressure is strong for such individuality to be confined. Such has long been the case and so it will probably remain, but Xiao-ming Li has masterfully turned the mirror on us and forced us to confront our selves." -- from the Foreword by Alan C. Purves

Reseña del editor

This dialogue between teachers of writing in China and America on what constitutes "good writing," reveals that standards are culturally situated.

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• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0791426807
• ISBN 13: 9780791426807
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 166