Dialogues on Basic Educational Needs: East and West

Xiaowen Li, Shuangshuang Xu*, Giuseppina Marsico

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this chapter, unique characteristics, challenges and needs of Chinese basic educational needs are reflected based on a dialogue and comparison with the international background. Problems concerning basic abilities in children’s daily life practice are outlined to understand the complex re-constructing process of value systems and educational practices in modern China. In this chapter, we propose that “consciousness” should be restored as the key issue in deep psychological researches in developmental and educational psychology. A look on education as institutionalized dramaturgy—“The pupil as actor and author,” “The class as theater company” and “The teacher as a director”—can function as an innovative interpretational framework to understand the school context and its societal functions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCultural Psychology of Education
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages9-15
Number of pages7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameCultural Psychology of Education
Volume12
ISSN (Print)2364-6780
ISSN (Electronic)2364-6799

Keywords

  • Basic abilities
  • Consciousness
  • Dramatization
  • Social transformation

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