Teaching in Primary Schools in China and India: Contexts of Learning

by Nirmala Rao, Emma Pearson, Kai-Ming Cheng, et al.

This book compares primary education in urban and rural China and India. It focuses on how the sociocultural context including educational policy, educators and parents' beliefs, and the conditions under which teaching and learning occur shape classroom pedagogy and determine children's attainment.

This in-depth, authentic, comparative analysis of the two largest educational systems in the world is a must-read for scholars interested in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415815525
• ISBN13: 9780415815529
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"