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I mean, I mean, that's a great point. So a very concrete example is the role of teachers here in, uh, China. Now there have been surveys done, um, that said that teachers are extremely well respected profession he..." }, { "ref": "video:interview-vhruuvmkxje@transcript:v1#seg-0018", "segment_id": "seg-0018", "start": 506.45, "end": 519.03, "time_label": "8:26", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "T the role of teachers, I mean, it's very prestigious, but, um, unfortunately, saving face is much more paramount than getting students to think deeply about the world, and getting, getting them to, um, express individu..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:interview-vhruuvmkxje@transcript:v1#seg-0019", "video:interview-vhruuvmkxje@transcript:v1#seg-0020", "video:interview-vhruuvmkxje@transcript:v1#seg-0021" ], "kind": "exchange", "summary": "The interviewer asks why teachers would change; Jiang answers that public demand for creativity has met two large sources of resistance, teachers protecting status and parents treating education as a zero-sum game.", "speaker_attribution": "Interviewer question and Jiang answer.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:interview-vhruuvmkxje@transcript:v1#seg-0019", "segment_id": "seg-0019", "start": 519.15, "end": 537.39, "time_label": "8:39", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "And how do teachers feel then about changing the culture in their own classrooms? If they're a very prestigious profession, who's highly respected and treated really well by parents in the community and the classroom, w..." }, { "ref": "video:interview-vhruuvmkxje@transcript:v1#seg-0020", "segment_id": "seg-0020", "start": 537.39, "end": 596.75, "time_label": "8:57", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "I think for the past 30 or 40 years, there's been a consistent demand among the general public, among economists, among policymakers, to promote creativity in the Chinese school system. 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When I first started in education, 20 years ago in China, and I myself have evolved greatly these past 20 years. I mean, I first started as a high school teacher, a..." }, { "ref": "video:interview-vhruuvmkxje@transcript:v1#seg-0024", "segment_id": "seg-0024", "start": 671.19, "end": 716.05, "time_label": "11:11", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "much opposition and protest against what I was doing, I've modified a lot of my techniques and strategies over the years. 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So I have complete control over the curriculum. I am better advocating on behalf of students. So my strategy going forward is to basically col..." }, { "ref": "video:interview-vhruuvmkxje@transcript:v1#seg-0026", "segment_id": "seg-0026", "start": 774.63, "end": 815.47, "time_label": "12:54", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And I have always been opposed to that. And so I've been slowly trying to get kids to read books and to act out certain scenes in the book, to write literary analysis essays. And only in two weeks, we've seen students,..." }, { "ref": "video:interview-vhruuvmkxje@transcript:v1#seg-0027", "segment_id": "seg-0027", "start": 815.71, "end": 833.09, "time_label": "13:35", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "you're giving teachers permission to try these things out, you're being an exemplar in your own classroom, and then you're kind of allowing the students to be advocates for their own learning. 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That's an incredible story of your why you've ended up as such a passionate advocate in the education space and an educator. We're coming to the end of our time together. And so I'm going to move us to the last fiv..." }, { "ref": "video:interview-vhruuvmkxje@transcript:v1#seg-0077", "segment_id": "seg-0077", "start": 2357.05, "end": 2388.09, "time_label": "39:17", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "I'm a science fiction writer. I've been writing. I've been working on a nine part, a nine book science fiction saga. These past few years, I finished three books. I have six more to go. Those three books exhausted me. 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Amazing." }, { "ref": "video:interview-vhruuvmkxje@transcript:v1#seg-0082", "segment_id": "seg-0082", "start": 2403.82, "end": 2407.1, "time_label": "40:03", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Wow. And what about something that is currently on your desk?" }, { "ref": "video:interview-vhruuvmkxje@transcript:v1#seg-0083", "segment_id": "seg-0083", "start": 2407.44, "end": 2434.28, "time_label": "40:07", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Yeah. So on my desk is Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume. It's something that I teach sixth grade Chinese. I love the book. It's fantastic. 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