HW 41- Initial Internet Research on Schooling: Edited

Student Ethics Correlation with School Structure

Kassab, Monica. "Cultural Exchanges" Honors Today: Crossing Borders. University of Buffalo, December 2009. 13-14.

Its a first person account from an American English teacher in Japan. Monica Kassab talks about what she learned from the experience her three years in Japan as an English teacher. The dual perspective of an American teacher is helpful in comparing how students in Japan are treated and how they behave in comparison to how the American students are treated and behave and highlight cultural values that these methods of teaching are based on. It shows how the students work are influenced by the teaching method.

"Chinese students more organized, less imaginative than American counterparts". University of Florida. 22 August 2006. http://www.physorg.com/news75480082.html

It's a study done by Florida University that basically says that Chinese students prefer to have a more organized learning environment while American students want flexibility and creativity. It includes a little about gender learning preferences in different countries, similarities and differences in learning style preferences in different countries.

I think these statistics reveal a little bit about how the cultural values affect the way things are taught and the student's preferences in learning.

Wan, Guofang. "The Learning Experience of Chinese Students" College Student Journal. March 2001.

This article reports a case study on the cross-cultural learning experiences of two Chinese students in American universities. It described their experiences in the following areas: motivations for learning, frustrations and satisfactions, strategies used to cope with language inefficiency, assumptions of the impact of their learning on their lives, and awareness of cultural differences in classroom and daily life.

This study is helpful identifying the differences in culture, language, and social and political system between China and the United States and how it impacts the experiences of the student.

"Education reform in China: An interview with Aibe Chen". Kappa Delta Pi Record. FindArticles.com. 25 Feb. 2010.

It's an interview with Professor Aibe Chen who is from the Beijing Institute of Education in China. China is trying to adopt an American styled education so it will be less focused on exams and more "quality-orientated".

Aibe talks about the differences between American and Chinese Education and how he hopes the reform will help change the schools in China. I think this interview will help identify the styles and ways each country generally teaches in school.

My mom

She went to school in China and also went as a college student in the US. I think she can give differences in the external structure of the classroom because she knows how it is different, for example in China, the students stay in one classroom and the teachers change and go into the room rather the other way around like it is in the US. I think she can also give her experiences as a student as well.

Dillon, Sam. Study Compares American Students with Other Countries. New York Times, 15 Nov. 2007. Web. 1 Mar. 2010.

A study called Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, or Timss, that tested foreign countries. The article compare US scores to these of other countries, specifically science and math.

I think the test can correlate to how much each subject is emphasized on to the students in the respective country that took it and I'm planning to research the hours and the study time that students in other countries use to relate to the test scores.

Friedman, Thomas L. A Word from the Wise. New York Times, 2 March 2010. Web.
3 March 2010.
Talks about the lack of U.S. is lagging in developing the next generation of scientific talent as well as the lack of incentives to induce big multinationals to create lots more jobs here when compared to China.

I think this can bring to focus, China's emphasis on Math and Science as compared to America. It displays the cultural values in some ways and how the U.S. is now in terms of teaching subjects in that area.

Education Statistics by Country. Nationmaster.4 March 2010. http://www.nationmaster.com/cat/Education-education
This site give an abundance of statistics on education and a number of other things by country. For example Student Attitude was one of them and the percentage of students that found school boring.

I think I can use this to compare U.S. and China in different areas and find facts and statistics that might contribute to finding out about the education and the students in different countries.