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Facilitating Asian students' critical thinking in online discussions

British journal of educational technology, 2009-01, Vol.40 (1), p.42-57 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2008 The Author. Journal compilation © 2008 Becta ;Journal compilation © 2009 Becta ;ISSN: 0007-1013 ;EISSN: 1467-8535 ;DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2008.00898.x ;CODEN: BJETAH

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  • Title:
    Facilitating Asian students' critical thinking in online discussions
  • Author: Chiu, Yi-Ching Jean
  • Subjects: Asian people ; Asians ; Confucianism ; Critical Thinking ; Cross cultural studies ; English as a second language ; Foreign Countries ; Mentors ; Student Leadership ; Students ; Taiwan ; Teaching methods
  • Is Part Of: British journal of educational technology, 2009-01, Vol.40 (1), p.42-57
  • Description: The purpose of the study reported here is to illustrate how an approach based on a culturally appropriate ‘shepherd metaphor’ has helped Asian students to cross cultural boundaries and to engage in critical thinking online. Asian students are under different levels of influence from the Confucian Heritage Culture, which cultivates students to revere authority, maintain harmony and avoid conflicts in public. This has a significant impact on Asian students' cultural readiness to verbalise critical thinking. This paper partially reports research undertaken in a large English as a Foreign Language reading class in Taiwan, in which ‘shepherd leadership’ was practised. Shepherd leadership involves knowing students individually, offering cognitive modelling, exercising leadership and discipleship, encouraging student leadership and calling on silent students personally to get them to participate. This approach, concentrating on Asian students' affective needs, cognitive modelling, passing leadership to students and reaching out to silent ones, was found effective.
  • Publisher: Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0007-1013
    EISSN: 1467-8535
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2008.00898.x
    CODEN: BJETAH
  • Source: Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
    Alma/SFX Local Collection
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