When I find out this website, I was kinda surprised how far China reach out with its traditional pedagogical system. To open the accessibility to foreigners for Chinese Confucius education philosophy, this school is aim to cultivate cross-cultrual projects. In contemporary society, the economical situation reflects the need of learning Chinese culture. The contemporary Chinese art market also reflects the needs and attention in global level.
http://www.confuciusinstitute.uwa.edu.au/
The confucius Institute is builded some years ago. I know it also in some primary schools and high schools. But I heared some information about The confucius Institute in US, this May some chinese teachers was forced to return, because thay are not get the education quality in US.So, it is a hard work in it~Actually, it has a program of volunteers~
ReplyDeleteThat is interesting....oppurtunity is truly global. Savannah School of Art And Design actually has a campus in Hong Kong. http://www.scad.edu/hong-kong/ They also have gotten into a vast e-learning program as well. Do you think art schools should embrace e-learning more....art is such a creative process and a lot is learned from a group setting that you may not get just being at a computer on your own....However no one can argue that if your motivated enough and have a internet connection there is quite a bit of inspiration, blogs, forums, etc....to learn a lot information. At the welcome back dinner, I got a chance to speak with Jereamy (teacher for 60yrs!) and we actually talked about the possibility of a virtual class room. When you look at popular games involving the user creating an avatar and leaving a virtual life, could teacher facilitate creative learning in a virtual classroom where students create there own character and go to school? Also we talked about what if you could create a program that could simulate teaching. We have flight simulation...what about teacher simulation...then you could replay the data and get instant feedback on lessons.
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