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]]> Comment on Can American Universities Teach Chinese Students Creativity? by Jiawei Gu http://kekepana.com/blog/2012/01/04/can-american-universities-teach-chinese-students-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-3054 Jiawei Gu Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:50:00 +0000 http://kekepana.com/blog/?p=3652#comment-3054 You mentioned "mianzi" above. I agree that "mianzi" is students' hinder from creativity and innovation, but also, Chinese teachers and profs are more afraid of losing their faces in front of the whole class. Most of them, especially high school teachers, will feel embarassed or humiliated if they could not answer the students' questions. In US, students who are active in the class will get full scores of attendance. However, in China, students who ask too many "weird" questions will be dragged to the "bad student list". What is more, some profs will joke on the student or satirize them to save their own faces. Please think about this question "Why Chinese students think they will lose face if they participate in the class?" If you still have opportunities to teach Chinese students, please encourge them to say out their "weird" questions and ideas. Please redefine the "good student" to them. I can say most of them have creativity. I love my country, but I have to say I hate its education system and feel desperate for it. You mentioned “mianzi” above. I agree that “mianzi” is students’ hinder from creativity and innovation, but also, Chinese teachers and profs are more afraid of losing their faces in front of the whole class. Most of them, especially high school teachers, will feel embarassed or humiliated if they could not answer the students’ questions. In US, students who are active in the class will get full scores of attendance. However, in China, students who ask too many “weird” questions will be dragged to the “bad student list”. What is more, some profs will joke on the student or satirize them to save their own faces. Please think about this question “Why Chinese students think they will lose face if they participate in the class?”

If you still have opportunities to teach Chinese students, please encourge them to say out their “weird” questions and ideas. Please redefine the “good student” to them. I can say most of them have creativity.

I love my country, but I have to say I hate its education system and feel desperate for it.

]]> Comment on Can American Universities Teach Chinese Students Creativity? by Jonathan Poston http://kekepana.com/blog/2012/01/04/can-american-universities-teach-chinese-students-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-3038 Jonathan Poston Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:04:11 +0000 http://kekepana.com/blog/?p=3652#comment-3038 Thanks for commenting, Binbin. I agree with most of what you're saying, and by no means am I implying in that article that the Chinese educational system doesn't have its strengths; only adding how integrating creativity courses would benefit students. However I do have one question--when you wrote: "Chinese students lack of creativity and innovation, mostly because that they are under greater study pressure than Their American counterparts," did you mean more pressure to learn to the test? Pressure doesn't always disincentivize creative learning, and in many cases, it's just what some students need as a catalyst to innovate. Thanks for commenting, Binbin. I agree with most of what you’re saying, and by no means am I implying in that article that the Chinese educational system doesn’t have its strengths; only adding how integrating creativity courses would benefit students. However I do have one question–when you wrote: “Chinese students lack of creativity and innovation, mostly because that they are under greater study pressure than Their American counterparts,” did you mean more pressure to learn to the test? Pressure doesn’t always disincentivize creative learning, and in many cases, it’s just what some students need as a catalyst to innovate.

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