Education 教育: How the World Learns: Comparative Educational Systems

Knowing how the world learns is a stepping-stone to understanding how students acquire skills and knowledge, teachers teach, and education systems function in the best (and worst) ways

-Alexander W. Wiseman

How the World Learns: Comparative Educational Systems, 24 Lectures

DVD 370.9 HOW, with CC, I saw in Kanopy with CC available, 2015

Alexander W. Wiseman, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Comparative and International Education

alexander.wiseman@ttu.edu

https://fire-ojs-ttu.tdl.org/fire/index.php/FIRE/about/contact

knowledge vs. skill ( tests only test skill not knowledge) and equality vs. equity

Finland success: equity (not equality) and expertise, hardly no standardized test, low-stake vs. high-stake test in Eastern countries, such as Taiwan, South Korea, Japan

equality: equal access to the resource, etc,

it is about what, content

it is about how, engagement.

sin of mission vs. sin of commission. Sins of omission are those in which we knew we should have done something good, but refused. A sin of commission is a sin we take action to commit, whether in thought, word, or deed. A sin of commission can be intentional or unintentional

Sing with Beetles song, Hello, Goodbye
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Teach Your Children

And you, of tender years

You can't know the fears that your elders grew by

As a mile wide and an inch deep - spoken by William Schmidt bschmidt@msu.edu

Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education

The Way We Were? The Myths and Realities of America's Student Achievement (Century Foundation/Twentieth Century Fund Report)

by Richard Rothstein riroth@epi.org

michelle.stack@ubc.ca, University of British Columbia,

martensk@uni-bremen.de, University of Bremen (lecture 8)

Sotiria.Grek@ed.ac.uk, University of Edinburgh

pasi.sahlberg@helsinki.fi

Burhanuddin Tola btola@centrin.net.id; pisa@centrin.net.id

https://www.oecd.org/pisa/contacts/pisanationalprojectmanagers2006.htm

Ian Westbury westbury@illinois.edu

180 school days

1 The Global Challenge to Educate

Context matters: context is key to make a useful comparison.

students move vs. teachers move; classroom anchored vs locks anchored.

School factors and no-school factors
The key to international comparisons is understanding which school and non-school factors align to make good things happen.

2 Sputnik Launches the Science-Math Race

3 Education Is Life

4 Evidence-Based Policy Making in Education

5 What Should We Compare about Education?

6 The World Learns from Horace Mann

You can describe something as nonsectarian if it's not connected or affiliated with any particular religious or political belief. A college is nonsectarian if it isn't associated with a religion or church, and a Sunday school class that teaches all religions is also nonsectarian.

Horace Mann got his ideas when he visited Prussia.

because females were paid less, so they could be hired in large quantities to serve as teachers.

7 When Culture Invades the Classroom

knowledge achievement is knowledge creation. Chinese Confucius conformity kills creativity, this culture influence education from the inside out, South Africa AID/HIV, poverty influence education from outside in.

8 Germany and Japan's Shattered Expectations

9 Borrowing Foreign School Cultures

10 The Value in Linking School to Jobs

Competency-based education is another word for vocational training or

sometimes called National qualifications framework

11 Why Blame the Teacher?

12 Gender Pipeline Lifts Equality Dream

13 Gulf Schools: The Non-National Advantage

Nationalism 民族主义

14 Who Is Accountable for Education?

15 How Parents Shape Student Outcomes

16 Reading, Writing, and Religion

A hidden curriculum is a set of lessons "which are learned but not openly intended" to be taught in school such as the norms, values, and beliefs conveyed in both the classroom and social environment.

17 International Test Scores: All and Nothing