Relief...contre la planéité

Les différences culturelles dans la transmission du savoir sont fascinantes. Les traditions de l’Occident et l’Orient divergent sur plusieurs points. Avec l’essor économique de ce dernier et la globalisation du savoir, il est utile d’élargir nos horizons. C’est ce que le National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (E.-U.) fait en comparant les connaissances des enseignants américains et chinois (Comparing What U.S. and Chinese Elemenentary School Math Teachers Know). …

Je retiens, entre autres, ce passage :

[Chinese elementary school mathematics teachers] teach just a few 45-minute classes (of up to 60 students each) a day. The rest of their day is spent collaborating with other teachers, grading papers, and planning lessons. One of the Chinese teachers highlighted in Ma’s book notes, « I always spend more time on preparing [for] a class than on teaching, sometimes three, even four times, the latter. » The time for professional growth the Chinese allow their teachers is the likely envy of many of their American counterparts, who often don’t even have time for bathroom breaks, let alone discussion with their colleagues.

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