China Tells Schools to Suppress Western Ideas, With One Big Exception
on February 9, 2015
Some teachers and students reject the idea that foreign pedagogy and textbooks pose a threat to the government.
Some teachers and students reject the idea that foreign pedagogy and textbooks pose a threat to the government.
Frank Youngman is Professor of Adult Education at the University of Botswana. He was educated at the universities of Nottingham and Hull, and at the London School of Economics. He has worked at the University of Botswana since 1975 and has been Head of the Department of Adult Education and Dean of the Faculty of Education. In Botswana he has participated in a wide range of governmental committees responsible for areas such as rural extension, women in development, adult literacy, teacher education, and distance learning. He was a member of the Presidential Commission that reviewed Botswana’s education system in 1992-1993 and he is on the UNESCO National Commission. Elsewhere in Africa, he has undertaken advisory and training work for various governments.
Li Xin is the current Managing Director of Caixin Global. Before this, she was the Managing Editor of the Chinese Wall Street Journal. This is her second stint at Caixin, where she was formerly the Managing Editor of Caixin: China Economics & Finance, an English-language magazine, and Caixin Online at Caixin Media. In 2006, she founded Caijing Magazine’s first bureau in the United States, as a correspondent of politics and economics. Li moved back to China in 2007 to head Caijing Magazine’s English website. Li was a documentary producer at China Central Television between 2001 and 2004.