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Portraits of Influential Chinese Educators
Ruth Hayhoe
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Description for Portraits of Influential Chinese Educators
Hardback. Conveys an understanding of China's educational development from within and provides insights into Chinese society. This title does so through portraits of eleven influential educators whose ideas have shaped the educational reforms initiated by Deng Xiaoping in 1978. Series: CERC Studies in Comparative Education. Num Pages: 416 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 763.
Portraits, whether graphic or verbal, have distinct purposes and values. Through deliberate selection, they seek to reveal and, thereby, to illuminate. In their literary form, selection of content and style ensures that they do not presume to achieve the status of fully-fledged biographies. Even so, a carefully brush-stroked, multi-layered and richly textured pen-portrait is capable of revealing much about both character and circumstance. And what it reveals is likely to be different from and far more profound than any insights permitted by other miniatures, such as simple snapshots or polemical caricatures. Professor Ruth Hayhoe has produced a whole gallery of ... Read more
Portraits, whether graphic or verbal, have distinct purposes and values. Through deliberate selection, they seek to reveal and, thereby, to illuminate. In their literary form, selection of content and style ensures that they do not presume to achieve the status of fully-fledged biographies. Even so, a carefully brush-stroked, multi-layered and richly textured pen-portrait is capable of revealing much about both character and circumstance. And what it reveals is likely to be different from and far more profound than any insights permitted by other miniatures, such as simple snapshots or polemical caricatures. Professor Ruth Hayhoe has produced a whole gallery of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Series
CERC Studies in Comparative Education
Number of Pages
398
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402055676
SKU
V9781402055676
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