“Education is a technique of inheritance and innovation. for that reason, it will be important for China to analyze and research from academic stories in different countries.” —Zhu Yongxin

One of China’s most famed students, Professor Zhu Yongxin has been on the vanguard of academic test, innovation, and educational fulfillment. during this enlightening number of essays, he stocks his observations and reflections at the academic advances in international locations in the course of the global. Exploring either vintage traditions and glossy reforms, the following and overseas, Yongxin offers a wealthy tapestry of principles and projects that could aid us flow ahead within the new schooling of China. The e-book includes:

* In-depth comparisons of the tutorial structures in China, Europe, North and South the USA, Africa, India, and different elements of Asia

* Notes from Yongxin’s travels out of the country, that includes a variety of faculties, universities, and educational suggestion leaders

* The evolution of academic traditions all through history—and the transformation of educational equipment around the globe

* an instructional process for China that mixes the simplest of all attainable worlds

“As an outdated chinese language asserting is going, stones from different hills may possibly serve to shine the jade of this one.” With those basic yet profound phrases, Professor Zhu Yongxin invitations us on a whirlwind trip throughout the international of education--a side-by-side, country-by-country comparability of the instructing kinds, philosophies, and organizational versions which are reworking faculties around the globe. Yongxin’s travels and experiences supply either a window to those worlds and a replicate to China’s academic improvement. it really is crucial studying for an individual attracted to the way forward for our faculties, our humans, and our nation.

Essays include:

* attractive Sakura: schooling excursions to Japan

* Passionate Samba: effect of schooling in South America

* The Fairy story global: An research into eu Education

* Worlds: Notes on Kenyan and American Education

* The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Comparative schooling Studies

* hearing the Meaters: research of suggestion on Education

Drawing from his event and insights as a pacesetter in schooling test, Yongxin compares and contrasts a few of the tools he stumbled on in different international locations with the present kingdom of China’s university process. He finds the learn effects from his visits to the USA and Japan, uncovering interesting parallels among the East and the West. alongside the way in which, he examines quite a few colleges of strategies from old chinese language thinkers to Marx, Engels, and Lenin, to a couple of the best innovators on the earth today.

“As a constructing nation, it really is major to investigate and examine the tutorial stories of complex countries,” Yongxin writes. “Where there's lifestyles, there's humanity.”

Zhu Yongxin is a member of the nationwide People’s Congress (NPC) status Committee, vp of the China organization for selling Democracy (CAPD), and vice chairman of chinese language Society of schooling (CSE). He additionally serves as a professor and PhD manager at Soochow University.

A sponsor of the hot schooling test in China, Professor Zhu has received numerous awards for his influential paintings, together with “60 nice participants in China’s schooling of 60 years” (2009), “30th Anniversary of Reform and establishing Up: individual of the 12 months in China’s schooling zone” (2008), “Top 10 information Figures in China’s Reform” (2007), and “Top 10 Elites in China’s schooling” (2006).

Professor Zhu has released greater than four hundred articles on schooling either at domestic and overseas, and released over 30 books as well.