Waiting for the Sun, Superman, or God?

• In Event: Roundtable Session 95
  In Roundtable Session: Teacher Identity and Disposition in Diverse Learning Contexts

Abstract

In reviewing selected literature critical of the “teaching-as-telling” in America and China, I suggest that the traditional direct teaching of truth has been entrenched in the public school systems in both countries as not only a teaching method but an implicit educational culture. The essence of this “teaching-as-telling” in both countries is the same – the will to control. Teaching thus becomes merely a method to instruct students to gain knowledge under the shining Sun of Truth. Then I suggest teaching-as-releasement as a possible alternative to that didactic teaching of absolute truth.

Author

• Jie Yu, Rollins College