The hosts frame Chinese education as a tension between high test performance and criticism of rote pedagogy, Gaokao teaching, rigidity, hierarchy, and cheating.
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The hosts frame Chinese education as a tension between high test performance and criticism of rote pedagogy, Gaokao teaching, rigidity, hierarchy, and cheating.
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"Very positive reports from my friend Alison Friedman. Anyway, by wonderful coincidence, we actually will be talking about educational exchange among other aspects of..."
"in the pedagogical system in China, and about the rampant cheating that may result from some of the above. So today we're delighted to..."
"...Chinese pedagogy will point right away to the prevalence of this rote learning and the relative lack of critical thinking, like you were talking..."
"...thinking skills. They talk about the need to move beyond. Just rote learning, everything that I've ever seen. It seems like the Ministry of..."
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