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This chapter begins with Hailiang’s cross-cultural experiences in Canada. It illustrates how Hailiang connected his teaching to his daily life in his first year of teaching, and follows his efforts to remove the teacher-student boundary in his second year of teaching. The chapter shows how he improved mutual understanding between teachers and students in his third year of teaching, and maintained his connection with Windsor schools in his stories of going forward.
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This is a line from an ancient Chinese poem about a rainy spring evening. The spring rain moistens things gently without making a sound.
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The Jialin High School started the Youth Master Project in 2003. This plan was originated from the youth education for sustainable development and environmental program in Sweden in 1999. http://www.goymp.org/en/frontpage.
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In China, the class committee is a group of students consisting of the monitor, the person in charge of cleaning the blackboard, discipline, and so on.
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The Gaokao is a national exam for entering universities.
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University of 211 Project (The 211 Project is a strategic cross-century project formulated by the Chinese government for the implementation of the strategy of invigorating the country through science, technology and education).
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Both are renowned Chinese educators who adapted Western educational philosophy to the Chinese context in the 1930s.
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The head teacher is called Banzhuren 班主任 in China and is in charge of a class.
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The national key universities are the tier 1 or tier 2 universities directly under the Ministry of Education.
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Xu, S. J., Chen, S. J., & Huang, J. (2015). Pedagogies of diversity: West-East reciprocal learning in pre-service teacher education. In L. Orland-Barak & C. J. Craig (Eds.), International teacher education: Promising pedagogies. Part B: Advances in research on teaching (Vol. 22B, pp. 137–160). Bingley, UK: Emerald Group.
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Huang, J. (2018). Connecting Teaching to Daily Life: Hailiang’s Narratives. In: Pre-Service Teacher Education and Induction in Southwest China. Intercultural Reciprocal Learning in Chinese and Western Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96478-2_6
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